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Kaushik Gopal

The Fragmented Podcast is a podcast for Android Developers hosted by Donn Felker and Kaushik Gopal. Our goal is to help you become a better Android Developer. We chat about topics such as Te...

Episodes

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312 - Understanding Pi Durable with Mario & Armin of Earendil

Pi creator Mario Zechner and Earendil co-founder Armin Ronacher join KG to explain Pi Durable: explicit tasks, crash recovery, and the primi...

01:00:42Oct 20, 2026

311 - Self learning harnesses are here

Claude Code and Codex have been the mainstay. OpenCode and Pi showed what open-source harnesses could be. But two new entries just moved the...

00:12:41Sep 6, 2026

310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow

Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM...

00:59:43Apr 14, 2026

309 - Background Agents

Andrej Karpathy says the goal is to maximize how long an agent runs without your intervention. But there's a false summit most teams hit fir...

00:25:37Apr 1, 2026

308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer

You already know how LLMs work from our popular 20-minute explainer. Now we take it to images. What does Michelangelo have to do with stable...

00:24:44Mar 24, 2026

307 - Harness Engineering - the hard part of AI coding

The hard part of AI coding isn't generating code — it's controlling quality, safety, and drift. Kaushik and Iury break down harness engineer...

00:29:55Mar 17, 2026

306 - Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective

AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo rules, personal rules, and tool-specific files in sync is st...

00:23:22Mar 10, 2026

305 - Subagents explained - What they are, when (not) to spawn them

Subagents are becoming a core primitive for serious AI-assisted development. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury disambiguate "agent" terminol...

00:26:38Feb 17, 2026

304 - Agent Skills - when to use them and why they matter

Agent Skills look simple, but they are one of the most powerful building blocks in modern AI coding workflows. In this episode, Kaushik and...

00:26:47Feb 9, 2026

303 - How LLMs Work - the 20 minute explainer

Ever get asked "how do LLMs work?" at a party and freeze? We walk through the full pipeline: tokenization, embeddings, inference — so you un...

00:25:45Feb 2, 2026

302 - MCPs Explained - what they are and when to use them

MCPs are everywhere, but are they worth the token cost? We break down what Model Context Protocol actually is, how it differs from just usin...

00:19:09Jan 26, 2026

301 - The AI coding ladder

Most folks reference "AI coding" like it's one thing. It's really not. In this foundational episode Kaushik & Iury walk through (at least) f...

00:24:38Jan 19, 2026

300 - From Vibe coding to Software engineering

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

00:08:44Jan 12, 2026

257 - Future of AndroidDev in an AI world with Vinay Gaba

Join us as we talk with Vinay Gaba, Android GDE and leading voice in Android development, about the future of the field. Vinay shares insigh...

00:47:39Mar 4, 2025

256 - Rapid prototyping with Kotlin

In this episode, we dive into the power of rapid prototyping for Android developers using Kotlin. We explore how this crucial skill can impr...

00:21:37Feb 24, 2025

255 - Data Oriented Programming

In this episode, we dive into the programming paradigm — Data Oriented Programming (DOP) and why making data the star can simplify your code...

00:31:32Feb 18, 2025

254 - 8× faster 5× memory savings with Dan Rusu’s Immutable Arrays

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/A...

00:49:16Dec 24, 2024

253 - logcat - a new look at logging with Piwai from Square

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...

00:40:30Dec 10, 2024

252 - Everyone needs a starter template

In this episode of Fragmented, Kaushik dives into the importance of creating your own starter template to streamline app development and min...

00:24:44Nov 26, 2024

251- There's a new king in DI town

In this episode, Kaushik explores the evolution of dependency injection (DI) in Android development. Dagger has been the de-facto solution f...

00:18:22Nov 12, 2024