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...
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Fragmented - The Software Podcast
The Fragmented Podcast is a podcast for Software Developers hosted by Donn Felker and Kaushik Gopal. Our goal is to help you become a better Software Developer. We chat about topics such as...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
250 - Bittersweet beginnings
We're back from the hiatus with our SemiQuicentennial episode! With the momentous 250 comes some big announcements and a shift in the way we...
249 - Java and the JDK: Powering the Android Landscape with Michael Bailey
In this episode of our podcast, we explore the diverse landscape of Java versions within the Android ecosystem. Our guest is Michael Bailey,...