Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

921: AI Coding Roadmap for Newbies (And Skeptics)


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Scott and Wes break down how to code with and for AI; perfect for skeptics, beginners, and curious devs. They cover everything from Ghost Text and CLI agents to building your own AI-powered apps with embeddings, function calling, and multi-model workflows.

Show Notes
  • 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
    • 03:56 How to interface with AI.
    • 04:07 IDE Ghost Text.
    • 05:45 IDE Chat, Agents.
    • 08:00 CLI Agents.
      • Claude Code.
      • Open Code.
      • Gemini.
      • 11:13 MCP Servers.
        Context7
      • 14:47 GUI apps.
        • v0.
        • Bolt.new.
        • Lovable.
        • Windsurf.
        • 19:07 Existing Chat app like ChatGPT.
        • 22:37 Building things WITH AI.
          • 23:32 Prompting.
          • 26:53 Streaming VS not streaming.
          • 28:14 Embeddings and Rag.
          • 31:09 MCP Server.
            • CJ’s MCP Deep Dive.
            • 32:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
            • 33:25 Multi-model, multi-provider.
            • 36:27 npm libs to use to code with AI.
              • OpenAI SDK.
              • AI SDK.
              • Cloudflare Agents.
              • Langchain.
              • Local AI
                • Tensorflow.
                • Transformers.js.
                • Huggingface.
                • 44:12 Processes and exploring.
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