The hard part of AI coding isn't generating code — it's controlling quality, safety, and drift. Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineering: the five pillars for shaping an agent's environment and what it looks like when teams build custom harnesses from scratch.

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

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[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
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AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

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We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like

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

Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminology, unpack plan mode vs subagents, and explain how parallel, scoped workers improve research quality without polluting the main thread.

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

Agents, Modes, Subagents: official harness docs

• Claude Code Subagents
• Gemini CLI Subagents
• Opencode Subagents
• Cursor Subagents
• Antigravity Agent Modes
• AOE Scouting

• Introducing Claude Opus 4.5
• Deep-Research Agents Paper
• Post: GPT-5 System Card by Alex
  Xu
• Self-Driving Codebases Blog -
  multi-agent systems making 1,000 commits/hour

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• Contact us
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• Kaushik Gopal
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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.

Agent Skills look simple, but they are one of the most powerful building blocks
in modern AI coding workflows. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury break down when
to use skills, how progressive disclosure works, and how skills compare with
commands, instructions, and MCPs.

Full shownotes at fragmentedpodcast.com.

• Progressive Disclosure -
  how skills are loaded into context
• Agent Skills Open Specification
• AAIF (Agentic AI Foundation) -
  Linux Foundation initiative for AI interoperability
• Needle in a Haystack Problem - original
  "Lost in the Middle" paper
• Agent-Invokable vs User-Invokable -
  merging skills and commands in Claude Code

• Skill Creator -
  Anthropic's skill for creating new agent skills
• Claude Code frontmatter reference
  • see model: * & context: fork

• Anthropic Skills GitHub Repository -
  official collection of Claude skills and examples
• Clawdhub - Clawdbot's skill hub. All versions are
  archived here
• SKILLS.sh - Vercel's skills hub

[!warning] Don't install from hubs blindly.

Inspect the repo code before adding anything to your agent.

• Prompt Injection Attacks -
  OWASP guide to LLM prompt injection vulnerabilities
• OpenClaw <- MoltBot <- Clawdbot
• OpenClaw Security Analysis -
  analysis of prompt injection risks in open agent frameworks
• Malware found in a top-downloaded Clawhub skill -
  incident report thread

• Few-Shot Prompting -
  improving outputs with examples
• .agents/skills - proposal
  to standardize the skills folder path
• Vercel: AGENTS.md vs Skills -
  comparison of agent instruction methods

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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.

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
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• Kaushik Gopal
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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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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.

• Newsletter
• Website
• Contact us
• Youtube

• 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.

• 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.

• fragmentedpodcast.com
• Contact us
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• 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.

• 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

• fragmentedpodcast.com
• Contact us
• Youtube

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