Kaushik Gopal

in an effort to prove that i'm not just an AI tip dispensing bot, here's a palate cleanser of one my (& the 90s') all time favorite songs, from a podcast that does some of the best song breakdowns: songexploder.net/goo-goo-dolls

So... i built a new font. Introducing Moxy. Moxy = Recursive + Lilex's glyphs kau.sh/blog/moxy/

maybe it’s the optimist in me but i feel there’s a reckoning coming where engineers are going to actually be evaluated by how effectively they use AI and it’s an actual trait companies start to look for, in interviews. tokensculpting = !tokenmaxxing

June update of AI model choices Kimi 2.6 has been the blow away surprise for me; often it keeps pace with GPT-Medium. Also OpenCode + OpenChamber is another sleeper hit. This harness combo is allowing me to do a lot more. Full post @ kau.sh/blog/ai-mode...

i know it’s getting mixed reactions but i personally love the music from #TheMandolorianAndGrogu to see how big a swing it is from the established forms (big John Willas fan as well) you should stay through the credits (also something i wish more folks did) and hear the range.

/btw is one of the most under-rated claude code commands, that other harnesses should straight up steal

introducing "Agent Kombat" take one prompt or plan and turns it into a planning debate between Claude Code and Codex. the agents produce independent plans, then they argue, a judge picks the stronger plan & writes the final plan you end up with a much better plan in the end kau.sh/blog/agent-k...

Love how Mitchell said of the current AI hypsters: If there's all this great value being created with AI... where are the actual products? Full episode: Youtube: youtu.be/pKrsF3eQQnQ?... Website: fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/310 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0zht...

This week @kau.sh and I had the pleasure to chat with Mitchell Hashimoto on the pod🎙️! Refreshing to hear someone of his caliber bring such a grounded perspective to agentic coding. We're super proud of this one!

I look up to @mitchellh.com as one of the best developer voices today.this ep. nearly broke me to edit-every 10s was a 💡 moment and I kept going "nope, can't cut that either." Can't thank him enough for being so gracious with his time.proud @fragmentedpodcast.com moment for me & @iurysouza.dev

Software engineers are basically becoming Harness engineers. Mitchell Hashimoto coined this term in his popular post detailing out his AI adoption journey. OpenAI then wrote a whole post with even more dtls on how they’re thinking about it and making systemic changes. kau.sh/blog/harness...

So you’re an android dev and got 4 worktrees going, with gradle daemons roaring and frying your machine … wdyd? you go to the ☁️ with background agents ! listen to the newest episode to find out more.

this one was fun to make. @iurysouza.dev and I took a crack at explaining how image models (stable diff.) work in ~20 minutes. building an intuition around AI is starting to matter a whole lot and that starts by understanding the mechanics. hope you get as much out of it as we did making it!

Lots of "I built this with AI" posts lately. Here's one where I actually enjoyed the building part. Introducing PodSync (for editors): a podcast alignment tool (uses VAD, MFCC fingerprinting, x-correlation) AI helped me 👨‍💻 it in Rust but yrs of aligning tracks 👂helped the algo: kau.sh/blog/podsync

Here's my list of reasons for using OpenCode 1. Switch between models on the fly 2. client-server architecture (a.k.a built-in remote control) 3. Subagent + mode features 4. Opinionated UX 5. “Highly” customizable via plugins kau.sh/blog/opencod...

This is the real work that teams need to put in, to get the best results from their AI coding agents. listen to our latest episode on Harness Engineering.

i like a lot of the new tmux-ish emulators like cmux but the smoothest workflow i've found is just using ghostty & one main tmux session. ☝️ one window for each task i'm working on with name "i" recognize quickly. then use fzf to search the tmux window list pane & switch ⚡

love the analogy that Iury gave - think of your AGENTS[.]md like the constitution of your codebase! we also go into an important paper that tries to answer the question that we've all had at some point - are these AGENTS files we're all meticulously creating, even worth it?

if you're dying to try /remote-control with claude code, you should really try opencode, which is almost the exact same thing (but imo a simpler execution) !

@kau.sh and I bring you some agentic coding goodies on the pod's newsletter. Check it out!

This was fun for both of us! We share some of how the fragmented 🌭 is made + Tips from @iurysouza.dev and me, and a crazy way we used AI to solve very real audio problems 😉.

new episode is out! spot the easter 🥚? recent models have shown massive improvement owing to clever use of "modes" and subagent dispatch. it really clicked for me after chatting with @iurysouza.dev listen to improve your fundamentals! (not just tactics).

🎙️Check out the new @fragmentedpodcast.com episode on subagents! They can be a huge unlock once you understand how it all works and you can get real benefits without having to a swarm them. @kau.sh and I built an RTS mental model for how they work (yes, we did that). Check it out!

I used to love Keynote for my slide decks but I've since become a full iA presenter convert (from the folks at iA writer). tastefully chosen constraints and display, all with the power of markdown.

agent skills are the most powerful construct for AI coding today. it's the quickest way to get better results with less context bloat. but with great power comes responsibility... they can become a prompt injection vector. this episode is a crash course on agent skills! 🎧

Everyone's talking about OpenClaw (Clawdbot) right now. But what makes it so extensible? Agent Skills! modular SKILL mds that teach an agent how to do anything. We do a deep dive in episode 304 on when to use them, how they work, and how not to get pwned. 🎧 fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/304

PSA: the official Anthropic GitHub org is github.com/anthropics (plural "s") not the lucky but slightly disturbing zombie shooter github.com/anthropic if you're installing official Claude plugins or skills and 404ing... now you know. 's' doing some heavy lifting there.