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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 02/07/2026

Everyone says they're building an AI-native company. But what does that mean? Automating what you're already doing with AI is not enough. A truly AI-native company rethinks every role and tears down the walls between them.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 01/07/2026

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

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Episode 295: Goo Goo Dolls

"Iris"LISTEN: APPLE · SPOTIFY · AMAZON · OTHER APPSGoo Goo Dolls formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, and by the time 1998 rolled around, they’d already had a pretty successful

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 30/06/2026

if you work at a slightly larger company and you're not already playing with open models, building a sense for when to reach for which, you're going to have a lot of catching up to do soon... 3-4 times now I've liked GLM 5.2's answer more than 5.5 xhigh or Opus 4.8.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 25/06/2026

I spent sometime on loop engineering. Some notes... Two types of loops: 1️⃣ one-shot loops (solved) and 2️⃣ autonomous I (personally) don't think "let the agent merge" is the right bar yet. Loops are better at producing reviewable stuff you still sign off on.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 19/06/2026

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

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 09/06/2026

I don't want to paint myself into any single major AI lab corner yet, so I've been kicking the tires on open source agent harnesses. opencode has become my daily driver. I took some time to write up intermediate+ user tips that show where it really shines.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 03/06/2026

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

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 02/06/2026

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...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 26/05/2026

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.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 07/05/2026

this is fantastic. particularly like the translating of technical words and interspersed lang detection India 🇮🇳 as folks might (not) know has ~120 distinct langs + 19500 dialects, so this is a particularly fascinating and important problem to solve there.

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AI-Dubbed IIT Madras Professor's Lectures in Indian Languages: Sarvam Studio

YouTube video by Sarvam

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 07/05/2026

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

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 05/05/2026

when generating code is cheap, the spec starts to feel more valuable. i keep thinking about my own tools: usbi went from shell → Go → Rust → .kts. Podsync went from Python → Rust. implementation changed rapidly but spec stayed the same

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Agents are the new compilers. Specs are the new code. - Kaushik Gopal's Website

Linus Torvalds recently said1 AI will be to code what compilers were to assembly — freeing us from writing it by hand. Around the same time, I talked with Jesse Vincent (creator of one of the most pop...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 27/04/2026

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...

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Agent Kombat - Kaushik Gopal's Website

Most multi-agent coding setups I see today look like task parallelism. You split the work, hand each piece to a different agent, and merge the results at the end. That is useful. I do it too. But I’ve...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 27/04/2026

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...

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iury souza @iurysouza.dev · 15/04/2026

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!

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 14/04/2026

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

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 03/04/2026

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...

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We are becoming Harness Engineers - Kaushik Gopal's Website

The role of a software engineer is shifting. Not toward writing more code but toward building the environment that makes agents reliable. Think about what you actually do with Claude Code or Codex tod...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 02/04/2026

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.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 24/03/2026

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!

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 20/03/2026

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

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Podsync - I finally built my podcast track syncer - Kaushik Gopal's Website

I host and edit a podcast1. When recording remotely, we each record our own audio locally (I on my end, my co-host on his). The service we use (Adobe Podcast, Zoom, Skype-RIP) captures everyone togeth...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 19/03/2026

i know cmux is the rage but a highly customized tmux still feels 👑 for power users. it's quicker for me to get a sense of the sessions and windows just by looking at them in one shot (ofc they're completely rename-able) updates or alerts in the session? the panes light up.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 18/03/2026

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...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 17/03/2026

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.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 12/03/2026

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 ⚡

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 10/03/2026

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?

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 07/03/2026

not sure it's a good thing (yet) but i've started treating my @obsidian.md vault as my (private) persistent memory. i go back and forth with an agent to research/learn, then dump "our" learnings into a note. to refresh my learning, i ask the agent to read the note and then resume

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 03/03/2026

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) !

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iury souza @iurysouza.dev · 24/02/2026

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

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 24/02/2026

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 😉.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 21/02/2026

opencode is basically openclaw for coding. an interesting focus area in the world of agent orchestration is "access fluidity". how easy is it to reach the agents doing the work on your machine - from your phone, terminal, IDE, or browser? kau.sh/blog/opencod...

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Agentic Fluidity - OpenCode is OpenClaw for coding - Kaushik Gopal's Website

One of the reasons OpenClaw got so popular was how fluidly you can chat with and operate your agents. Pull up your phone, send a quick message on WhatsApp, and you’re in business. As we focus more on ...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 17/02/2026

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).

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iury souza @iurysouza.dev · 17/02/2026

🎙️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!

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 11/02/2026

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.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 11/02/2026

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! 🎧

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Duck Droid @fragmentedpodcast.com · 09/02/2026

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

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 05/02/2026

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.

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Anthropic

Anthropic has 66 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 05/02/2026

people out there be complicating their claude code statusline. keep it simple and clean !

Public gist at https://gist.github.com/kaushikgopal/d92cd6a483c8b8683a2cd04137257866

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iury souza @iurysouza.dev · 02/02/2026

Its really useful to get some intuition of how LLMs work so that you can get the most out of them. This was tricky to do, but I guess @kau.sh and I did a good job of breaking down how LLMs work on a 20min, audio-only episode. I always learn smth when I revisit this topic. Check it out!🎙️

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 02/02/2026

If you can't explain it to a 6-year-old... Neither of us is 6, but I definitely came out of this one with a much better understanding of how Large Language Models work 🤘 @iurysouza.dev and I try to explain the most important concept of our time in 20 minutes.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 26/01/2026

If you're coding with AI today, you definitely must have run across the term MCP. Listen to the latest episode of @fragmentedpodcast.com to learn more about them, the trade-offs, and some of the most useful ones to install today. @iurysouza.dev pointed me to one that wasn't even on my radar!

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 22/01/2026

at least 20% of the dopamine from my AI coding is delivered directly by the font TX-02 (Berkeley Mono) 🤌✨ treat yourselves to the ultimate TUI upgrade... usgraphics.com/products/ber...

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TX-02 Berkeley Mono™ Typeface

A love letter to the golden era of computing.

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iury souza @iurysouza.dev · 20/01/2026

The new season starts now. 🎙️ The AI Coding ladder @kau.sh and I dive into AI coding paradigms and the simple loop driving these agents. Give it a listen!

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 19/01/2026

Ep 301 is out ! 🤖🪜 Make sure to listen to the slick tips at the end the episode. @iurysouza.dev shares a nifty way of transferring your sessions between agents and I mention how I get better results from agents!

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 15/01/2026

So MCP & AGENTS are under AAIF (Linux Foundation): "open" in the true governance sense. Agent Skills is different though: it's a public spec on a github repo but still "maintained by Anthropic".

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 13/01/2026

AI model choices as of today! kau.sh/blog/ai-mode...

A common question I get is, “Which AI model should I use for X task?”

Models evolve so rapidly that I never felt like I could give an answer that would stay relevant for more than a month or two.

This year, I finally feel like I have a stable set of model choices that consistently gives me good results. I’m jotting it down here to share more broadly, and to trace how my own choices evolve over time.

GPT 5.2 (High) for planning and writing, including writing plans
Opus 4.5 for anything coding, task automation, and tool calling

Gemini’s range of models for everything else:

Gemini 3 (Thinking) for learning and understanding concepts (underrated)
- Gemini 3 (Flash) for my go-to quick-answer questions
- Nano Banana (obv) for all image generation
- NVIDIA’s Parakeet for voice transcription

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iury souza @iurysouza.dev · 12/01/2026

Been a Fragmented listener since before I got my first dev job. Surreal to now be joining @kau.sh as co-host for this new Al focused season! Looking forward to getting into the ins and outs of Al coding! What actually works, what doesn't, and how to think about all of it. Let's do this! 🎙️🤘

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 11/01/2026

Big changes coming to @fragmentedpodcast.com New direction. New cohost. New episode numbering. Full story drops in the episode coming out on Monday. But if you want a sneak peek (updates in our email newsletter). buttondown.com/fragmentedcast

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The Fragmented Podcast letters

vibe coding → software engineeringFragmented is a developer podcast that helps turn vibe coders into software engineers, one episode at a time. Our goal is to share our learnings with AI assisted deve...

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 09/01/2026

i would pay good money to have an independent touch-id sensor, so i can keep using my kinesis keyboard. Why doesn't apple make one. sigh. cool hacks until then: - www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/wh... - grepjason.sh/2022/standal...

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Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?

I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in. But there is a way to hack ...

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