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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