Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast

Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza

Episodes 269
Avg. Duration 41m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 5.0 (68)
Since Feb 2015
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
66%
Hosting
feeds.simplecast.com

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About This Podcast

Fragmented is an AI developer podcast for engineers who want to go beyond vibe coding and ship real software. We cover AI-assisted development the way working engineers actually use it: prompting strategies, code review, testing, debugging, workflows, and building production-grade software with AI tools. No hype. No "I shipped a SaaS in a weekend" stories. Just tactics that work. Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza — software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products. From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.

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310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow

Apr 14, 2026 59m

Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM — and then built a terminal. Ghostty is now where a huge…

309 - Background Agents

Apr 01, 2026 25m

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 first: individual speed goes up while system speed stalls,…

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

Mar 24, 2026 24m

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 diffusion? More than you'd think. Walk away knowing how…

307 - Harness Engineering - the hard part of AI coding

Mar 17, 2026 29m

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…

306 - Keeping your agent instructions in sync and effective

Mar 10, 2026 23m

AGENTS.md is becoming the common language for AI coding tools, but keeping repo rules, personal rules, and tool-specific files in sync is still messy. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury break down…

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

Feb 17, 2026 26m

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…

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

Feb 09, 2026 26m

Agent Skills look simple, but they are one of the most powerful building blocksin modern AI coding workflows. In this episode, Kaushik and Iury break down whento use skills, how progressive…

303 - How LLMs Work - the 20 minute explainer

Feb 02, 2026 25m

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…

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

Jan 26, 2026 19m

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…

301 - The AI coding ladder

Jan 19, 2026 24m

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…

300 - From Vibe coding to Software engineering

Jan 12, 2026 8m

Fragmented is changing. New direction, new cohost. Kaushik explains the pivotfrom Android to AI development and introduces Iury Souza.From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a…

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

Mar 04, 2025 47m

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…

256 - Rapid prototyping with Kotlin

Feb 24, 2025 21m

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…

255 - Data Oriented Programming

Feb 18, 2025 31m

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,…

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

Dec 24, 2024 49m

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…

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

Dec 10, 2024 40m

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…

252 - Everyone needs a starter template

Nov 26, 2024 24m

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…

251- There's a new king in DI town

Nov 12, 2024 18m

In this episode, Kaushik explores the evolution of dependency injection (DI) in Android development. Dagger has been the de-facto solution for DI in Android but there might be a new king in DI-town.…

250 - Bittersweet beginnings

Oct 29, 2024 34m

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 do things.Listen to find out the details!Shownotes:…

249 - Java and the JDK: Powering the Android Landscape with Michael Bailey

Jul 10, 2023 54m

In this episode of our podcast, we explore the diverse landscape of Java versions within the Android ecosystem. Our guest is Michael Bailey, a seasoned Java expert who has been a frequent presence on…

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