921: AI Coding Roadmap for Newbies (And Skeptics)

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Jul 21, 2025•49 min

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Episode description

Scott and Wes break down how to code with and for AI; perfect for skeptics, beginners, and curious devs. They cover everything from Ghost Text and CLI agents to building your own AI-powered apps with embeddings, function calling, and multi-model workflows.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 03:56 How to interface with AI.
- 04:07 IDE Ghost Text.
- 05:45 IDE Chat, Agents.
- 08:00 CLI Agents.
  - Claude Code.
  - Open Code.
  - Gemini.
- 11:13 MCP Servers.
  Context7
- 14:47 GUI apps.
  - v0.
  - Bolt.new.
  - Lovable.
  - Windsurf.
- 19:07 Existing Chat app like ChatGPT.
22:37 Building things WITH AI.
- 23:32 Prompting.
- 26:53 Streaming VS not streaming.
- 28:14 Embeddings and Rag.
- 31:09 MCP Server.
  - CJ’s MCP Deep Dive.
  - 32:36 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
- 33:25 Multi-model, multi-provider.
- 36:27 npm libs to use to code with AI.
  - OpenAI SDK.
  - AI SDK.
  - Cloudflare Agents.
  - Langchain.
  - Local AI
    - Tensorflow.
    - Transformers.js.
    - Huggingface.
44:12 Processes and exploring.

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