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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.
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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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