The new season starts now. 🎙️ The AI Coding ladder @kau.sh and I dive into AI coding paradigms and the simple loop driving these agents. Give it a listen!

Ep 301 is out ! 🤖🪜 Make sure to listen to the slick tips at the end the episode. @iurysouza.dev shares a nifty way of transferring your sessions between agents and I mention how I get better results from agents!

So MCP & AGENTS are under AAIF (Linux Foundation): "open" in the true governance sense. Agent Skills is different though: it's a public spec on a github repo but still "maintained by Anthropic".

AI model choices as of today! kau.sh/blog/ai-mode...

Been a Fragmented listener since before I got my first dev job. Surreal to now be joining @kau.sh as co-host for this new Al focused season! Looking forward to getting into the ins and outs of Al coding! What actually works, what doesn't, and how to think about all of it. Let's do this! 🎙️🤘

Big changes coming to @fragmentedpodcast.com New direction. New cohost. New episode numbering. Full story drops in the episode coming out on Monday. But if you want a sneak peek (updates in our email newsletter). buttondown.com/fragmentedcast

i would pay good money to have an independent touch-id sensor, so i can keep using my kinesis keyboard. Why doesn't apple make one. sigh. cool hacks until then: - www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/wh... - grepjason.sh/2022/standal...

I think of my laptop as one giant battery pack. I don't understand people who chug along laptops but also carry battery packs. If you - like me - are used to taking your laptop with you everywhere. leave that battery pack at home! ... or enlighten me.

📣 movie/tv recommendation service as we get to end of the year and you're furiously curating lists for friends & fam to watch over the holidays simkl.com - truly ghastly UI but content is 🎯 kau.sh/blog/movie-r... - movie/tv rating system (friends have 👍 this system and say it works)

sub-agent workflows feel like the holy grail but most solns are more complicated than necessary. I wired a thin shell script to spawn interactive subagents, seeded with just the right context it’s the first subagent workflow that’s felt practical & consistently useful. 🔖 kau.sh/blog/agent-f...

i'm a terminal zealot and i've happily been a luddite,`git`ing with all the old school commands. but one of the biggest terminal cli unlocks for me this 2025 has been lazygit by Jesse Duffield incredibly powerful! there's really no going back now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLd...

Android phones have a wicked feature: Wi‑Fi sharing. iPhones still can’t do this. Your phone joins a Wi‑Fi network, re-shares that same network as a hotspot. Perfect for captive portals and "one device" plans. UniFi’s new Travel Router finally pushed me to write this up: kau.sh/blog/wifi-sh...

it's also telling that the "skills" implementation of codex is more flushed out than "/commands". for e.g. codex still doesn't support project specific "/commands" but they do agent skills. I think, they internally think, skills could be a lot more powerful/valuable in the long run.

the creator of Selenium (insanely popular automation for web browsers) just released Vibium I'm hoping this brings solid backing to LLMs automating the browser in a more controlled fashion. personally not a fan of MCPs but Vibium is easily pluggable with a CLI script github.com/VibiumDev/vi...

A motorbike for the mind. Steve Jobs called the computer a bicycle for the mind. I think AI is more like a motorbike. Everyone can twist the throttle now. The skill now is knowing when to brake. kau.sh/blog/motorbi...

If you're serious about your monospaced fonts and want to benefit from my hours, years of sickness trying to find the right one! here are three best ones: 1. Berkeley Mono by @us.graphics 2. SF mono by 🍎 3. Recursive Code by @arrowtype.bsky.social

this makes sense. progressive disclosure is such a powerful concept, that every other tool is going to start adopting. I wrote about this but I'm certain that eventually commands, MCPs etc will fade out when skills is understood and picked up. kau.sh/blog/claude-...

Kotlin devs! Rust is a great language to pick up if you want to combat AI atrophy. Let that borrow checker give your brain the workout that vibe coding won't. kau.sh/blog/learn-r...

A great write-up from Perk about how they adopted Compose Multiplatform! Cool to see this from an app that I actually use regularly.

if you aren't following @sinasamaki.com, you're missing out on some of the most exquisite and refined jetpack compose animations; I'm constantly surprised/amazed by some of the things they pull off !

Read the Cash App Engineering post on migrating DI framework to Metro and was inspired: code.cash.app/cash-android... I wanted this, but couldn't spend ½ a day doing the migration for my playground apps. Cracks knuckles and opens Codex...

🤠 this is awesome & a gutsy move 1. does it work on Macs though? (verge article says yes; no mention in official google post) 2. there are "alternative" solutions but they all require installing 3rd party soft a _native_ (or atleast no additional app install) way makes this👌

AI-assisted coding → Vibe Engineering ← Vibe Coding We're confusing three different ways to code with AI. The key questions: who generates most of the code, and who owns the design? As agentic workflows take off, the distinction will matter. Exploring the distinction: kau.sh/blog/vibe-eng/

Shout out to the service Soundiiz that has been a godsend every time I decide to jump ship with music providers. It's one service that's reliably transferred my music back and forth from Apply Music, Youtube Music, Spotify etc.

Go with monthly AI subscriptions friends. kau.sh/blog/ai-mont...

Firefox + UbO is still better than Brave, Edge or any Chromium-based solution kau.sh/blog/firefox...

The moment AI "clicked" for me: I realized it wasn’t about finishing the work faster, it was about finishing less exhausted. Lower cognitive burden quietly multiplies output. Wrote more about it here: kau.sh/blog/cogniti...

Never knew the day would come but i use the default color theme everywhere - Ghostty, Zed, even Intellij/Android Studio 🫨; default color theme everywhere. current times have shifted a bit in my brain where i'm more tool agnostic. I still use a custom font/size/line-height (i'm not barbaric!)

Standardize your IDE keyboard shortcuts Mine is: - ⌘ P - ⌘ O 🧘‍♂️ kau.sh/blog/cmd-o-c...

Product vs Model Innovation kau.sh/blog/product...

oh boy... i think i'm a full on convert to @zed.dev now. even if you're not on the AI coding bandwagon, you should check it out. the speed is just 🤯 the only other IDE i've enjoyed using this much was Jetbrains.

Anthropic announced Claude Skills and my first reaction was... uh... so what? Took sometime to try and parse through it. Here's my take on @anthropic.com's new Claude feature - Skills and the interesting bits around progressive disclosure + just-in-time context injection. kau.sh/blog/claude-...

this AWS outage is an excellent opportunity to remind dev bloggers out there - you don't need to use a service like Medium. it's extremely easy to use a static site generator and have your html served directly: Ghost, Hugo, Gatsby, Jekyll - there's plenty of options.

Amp Free by @sourcegraph.com is kind of fascinating. it started as a joke but once we collectively realize the (currently*) untenable costs of true agentic coding, this approach is going to look really appealing for those who cannot pay per. license fees ampcode.com/news/amp-free

I continue my ongoing seminal treatise of explaining software jargon to the masses. From Yak-shaving → Bikeshedding to now Cargo Culting. This is going to be my best work, I can tell. kau.sh/blog/cargo-c...

Do you use VSCode or Cursor? ... you're welcome 😎

The single biggest unlock I've had with AI coding assistants is the planning step. In an OpenAI's DevDay talk, @aaronfriel.bsky.social mentions his "ExecPlan" approach. I know the term game-changer is thrown a lot (esp. with AI written posts) but folks... this is a game-changer.

Engineers won’t be replaced by tools; they’ll be replaced by systems that make today’s tasks nonessential. Inspired by an article from Sangeet Choudary on system‑centric (vs task-centric) view, i think we go from code author to software conductor. Full post: kau.sh/blog/softwar...

Quick way to get much better results from your LLM powered searches. Mike Caulfield wrote an excellent post on this: mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...

Should go live soon, until it does you can get the whole file embedded in the article here! github.com/openai/opena...

@aaronfriel.bsky.social big fan of your talk from Dev Day. i've also found writing the plan down in detail before kicking off the task, yields much better results with agents; and written about it. but your `PLANS.md` file was 🤯; were you still planning to open source/upload it?

Adding an AGENTS md file is low hanging fruit to get good results from your AI coding agent. Use Claude Code's `/init` on a new repo and you have one ready to go. If your AI coding agent doesn't have this command, it's super easy to build one: kau.sh/blog/build-a...

I often hear from devs that AI coding is great for the simpler one-off tasks but it struggles the minute you're working on slightly bigger tasks or working on tasks that operate across modules etc. i've found success even with these tasks. here's how I think about it: kau.sh/blog/three-r...

I tried an experiment: could I vibe-code my way through unfamiliar territory? Ended up shipping my first Firefox add-on. 🚦https://kau.sh/blog/container-traffic-control/ it can work... if you’re ruthless about pruning.

excited to end the @fragmentedpodcast.com hiatus with a new season: a developer's crash course on #AI #programming just enough theory but more "how do I actually build with this?" i'll start with fluency, then dive deep. help me shape the first few episodes:

A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad. kau.sh/blog/usbi/

@kau.sh on theme with your blog post (kau.sh/blog/reclaim...) I wrote a chrome / Firefox plugin to rip the dashes away from ChatGPTs grimy… tensor cores? (Idk) github.com/simonsickle/... Should be in the Mozilla and Chrome web stores in the next few days after reviews are done

Why thank you Claude 🙏 Migration from Compose Navigation 2 → Jetpack Navigation 3 ✅ #AndroidDev

Google still knows how to really swag 😍 #Gemini

one of the reasons I love reading posts, on the same topic, by different authors, is that it hones my understanding. oh and coroutines is a maze that requires constant honing. each author brings their outlook and i pick up more nuggets of info along the way. looking forward to the next posts!