187: Agentic Coding

Programming Throwdown

May 02, 2026•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 187

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187: Agentic Coding

Intro topic: Bad equity vesting schedules

News/Links:

Artemis II
- https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-record-setting-artemis-ii-moonfarers-back-to-earth/
Gemma 4
- https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
Hatetris
- https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html
Dripwarts: School of Drip
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnHjz8jvWFk

Book of the Show

Patrick
- Project Hail Mary
  - https://amzn.to/4cQdxVa

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h
Tool of the Show

Jason
- FF6 T-Edition
  - https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6339/

Topic: Agentic Coding

Progression
- Better Code Completion
  - Intellisense
  - Copilot
- Cowriting
  - Cursor
  - Roo Code
- Longer Horizon
  - Claude Code
  - Codex
  - Gemini CLI
- Swarm
Guidelines
- Git
- Planning
- Task decomposition
- AGENTS.md
- Adjusting vs Restarting
- Skepticism
Future of software engineering?

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