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.

Show NotesWords -> Tokens:

• OpenAI Tokenizer visualizer -
  Visualize how text becomes tokens

Tokens -> Embeddings:

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

Embeddings -> Inference:

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

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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
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Co-hosts:

• Kaushik Gopal
• Iury Souza

[!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.

Show Notes

• 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

Tips

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

Get in touch

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

Co-hosts:

• 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.

Show NotesGen 1: Super autocomplete

• Intellisense - regular autocomplete
• Github Copilot
• Cursor Tab

Gen 2: Chat Oriented Programming

• Cursor IDE
• Firebender

Gen 3: Agent

• 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

Gen 4: Agent Orchestration

• Git worktrees

Tips

• 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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• Iury Souza

Fragmented is changing. New direction, new cohost. Kaushik explains the pivot
from Android to AI development and introduces Iury Souza.

From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time.

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

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Co-hosts:

• Kaushik Gopal
• Iury Souza

Join us as we talk with Vinay Gaba, Android GDE and leading voice in Android development, about the future of the field. Vinay shares insights from interviews with top Android devs on their three-year predictions, and offers his own perspective. We cover AI's impact, evolving development roles, and crucial future skills.

You can find the full shownotes over at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show Notes

• Vinay's personal website
  • Dispatch - Jetpack Compose newsletter
  • Issue #11 - Future of AndroidDev
• Cursor AI IDE
• Jetbrains AI assistant
• Jetbrains Junie - the coding agent

Pessimists avoid risk, Optimists change the world.

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Kaushik:

• kau.sh (links to everything)
• Threads
• Bluesky
• Youtube
• @kaushikgopal

In this episode, we dive into the power of rapid prototyping for Android developers using Kotlin. We explore how this crucial skill can impress stakeholders, accelerate your workflow, and help you stay ahead in today's fast-paced tech landscape. We'll cover use cases across scripting, web development (with Ktor & HTMX), mobile apps (Jetpack Compose), and even touch upon how AI is changing the game!

You can find the full shownotes over at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show Notes

• Simple scripting
  • State of Kotlin Scripting 2024 - Jetbrains blog
  • Kotlin mini-app repo playground-kt
  • Advent of Code
• Web sites
  • Hugo static site generator
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Slashdot effect
  • Fragmented Podcast Website powered by Henry (Kaushik's custom theme)
• Web apps
  • Ktor
  • HTMX
    • Ajax
    • CSS Transitions
    • Server Sent Events
  • Youtube Video showing Ktor + HTMX
• Mobile apps
  • Episode 252 talking about playground-android
  • Flutter
  • Kotlin Multiplatform KMP
  • React Native
• LLM Based apps
  • Streamlit.
    • Snowflake acquires Streamlit
  • Google AI Studio
  • Kotlin AI
• Vibe coding an AirBnb clone

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• Contact us
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Kaushik:

• kau.sh (links to everything)
• Threads
• Bluesky
• Youtube
• @kaushikgopal

In this episode, we dive into the programming paradigm — Data Oriented Programming (DOP) and why making data the star can simplify your code. Learn how well-modeled data reduces defensive logic, prevents invalid states, and keeps your apps stable. We’ll also contrast DOP with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP), sharing practical examples, tips, and resource links to deepen your understanding.

The full shownotes with illustrations are on fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show Notes

• [announcement] Fragmented has an email newsletter.
• Programming Paradigms
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Functional Programming

Data Oriented Programming (DOP)

• UUID
  • RFC 4122
  • Kotlin now includes UUID in the standard lib even for kotlin multiplatform.

Resources

• Brian Goetz's seminal article on DOP
• Ties Van de Ven Advanced Kotlin Dev Day in 2022
• Data Oriented Programming in Java by Chris Kiehl (by Manning Publications)
• Devoxx talk by Nicolai Parlog on youtube

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• kau.sh (links to everything)
• Threads
• Bluesky
• Youtube
• @kaushikgopal

In this episode, discover how Dan Rusu’s pods4k Immutable Arrays library can deliver 2–8× speed boosts and 5× lower memory usage in Kotlin/Android apps. We first revisit the fundamentals of autoboxing/unboxing and immutability to understand their impact on performance. Then we hear from Dan himself on his library, motiviations for building it, how the benchmarks were calculated and much much more. Our grand finale episode for 2024. Hope you enjoy it!

Full Shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/254.

Show Notes

• Immutable Arrays on github
• Immutability episode #66 on Immutability with Ryan Harter
• JMH - Java Microbenchmark Harness
• Immutable Arrays Benchmarks page for Immutable Arrays (pods4k)
• Dan's post - Kotlin avoids entire categories of Java defects
• K2 compiler
• Dan Rusu
  • Website
  • pods4k github discussions

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• kau.sh (links to everything)
• Threads
• Bluesky
• Youtube
• @kaushikgopal

Disclaimer: Links shared might be affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

Kaushik looks at a new logging library from Square called logcat. He starts by seeing how the popular Timber library does it along with the benefits. He then interviews Pierre-Yves Ricau (Piwai) of Square, the creator of logcat, to explore its origins and advantages.

You can find the full shownotes over at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show Notes

• Timber
• logcat
  • Motivations in README
  • Compiler plugin issue
  • Playground android app demonstrating logcat
• bitdrift.io
• Design of everyday things
• Previous episode #191 on logging
• Contact Piwai:
  • Website
  • Bluesky

Contact

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• kau.sh (links to everything)
• Threads
• Bluesky
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Disclaimer: Links shared might be affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.

In this episode of Fragmented, Kaushik dives into the importance of creating your own starter template to streamline app development and minimize decision fatigue. He shares insights from his own starter template - Playground Android.

Looking to the future, JetBrains has an exciting tool called Amper that might make all of this much easier. Kaushik chats with JetBrains’ Márton Braun about Amper, an exciting new tool that could revolutionize Kotlin & Android project setups.

Tune in to learn how to go from idea to code with less friction!

You can find the full shownotes over at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Show Notes

• Playground Android
• The Architecture Templates (blog post)
• Inspiration (Other starter templates):
  • Bloco's starter template what i referenced a lot
  • Donn's project - Jumpstart Android if you care about quickly getting a Rails app integrated with Android in a hybrid experience
  • Now in Android too much functionality for my taste
  • Jake's u2020 for some good times nostalgia
• Playground Android
  • gradle version catalog - BOM & Bundles (one source of truth)
  • sharing build logic with gradle convention plugin
  • Makefile with common cli commands
  • Custom lint-rules
  • Multi module setup
  • dependency injection with kotlin-inject-anvil
    • Episode 251 - There's a new king in DI town
  • function-injection demo in @Composable
• Amper
  • logcat lib and injecting multiple loggers
  • basic networking with ktor #10
  • compose-navigation between feature modules
• Iury's post on Kotlin Devex
• Amper
  • blog posts on Amper
• Feedback on Amper - kotlinlang slack
• Contact Márton Braun

Contact

You can find us on a few places:

• fragmentedpodcast.com
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Kaushik:

• kau.sh (links to everything)
• Bluesky
• @kaushikgopal
• Threads
• Youtube

Disclaimer: Links shared might be affiliate links. They help support the production of Fragmented. Thank you for your support.