Ever get asked "how do LLMs work?" at a party and freeze? We walk through the full pipeline: tokenization, embeddings, inference — so you understand it well enough to explain it. Walk away with a mental model that you can use for your next dinner party.

_Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

• OpenAI Tokenizer visualizer -
  Visualize how text becomes tokens

• RGB Color model - wikipedia
• Word2Vec technique - wikipedia
  • Efficient Estimation of Word Representation -
    original Word2Vec paper by Mikolov et al.

• Word embedding
• Temperature, Top-k, Top-p samping

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[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind
our new direction.

MCPs are everywhere, but are they worth the token cost? We break down what Model Context Protocol actually is, how it differs from just using CLIs, the tradeoffs you should know about, and when MCPs actually make sense for your workflow.

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/302.

• MCP - Model Context Protocol
• Remote MCP server example - Glean
• AAIF -
  Agentic AI Foundation setup by Linux foundation
• Github MCP
• Github gh CLI
• Playwright MCP
• Context7 MCP
• Anthropic's announcement on
  Advanced Tool Use

• Iury: use ast-grep to structurally
  search code faster
• KG: use agent-browser by Vercel to give browsing
  power to your agent

We'd love to hear from you. Email is the
best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other
ways.

We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like
to hear more on. We want to make the show better for you so let us know!

• Contact us
• Newsletter
• Youtube
• Website

• Kaushik Gopal
• Iury Souza

We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind
our new direction.

Most folks reference "AI coding" like it's one thing. It's really not. In this foundational episode Kaushik & Iury walk through (at least) four paradigms — from super autocomplete to agent orchestration — each with different workflows, expectations, and mental models.

What do most developers follow today? Where is the frontier? What's coming in the future?

Listen to the episode and find out!

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

• Intellisense - regular autocomplete
• Github Copilot
• Cursor Tab

• Cursor IDE
• Firebender

• Nvidia's definition of an Agent
• ReAct Prompting
• Chain of Thought was a prompting hack
• DeepSeek
  • DeepSeek - R1 paper
• TUI tools (or Harnesses):
  • Claude Code
  • Open Code
  • Codex Cli
  • Gemini Cli
• IDE style tools
  • Cursor Agent
  • Copilot (MS)
  • Junie - Intellij
  • Antigravity - Google
• Headless Tools:
  • Jules - Google
  • Claude Code on the Web
  • Codex Web

• Git worktrees

• Iury: Transfer between agents using your own
  compact command
• KG: Ask the agent to clarify your prompt

Confirm if my requirements are clear. If you have follow up questions, ask me
first and clarify before executing anything.

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