921: AI Coding Roadmap for Newbies (And Skeptics)

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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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