182: AI Assisted Coding

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Java, Programming Throwdown, Education, News, Programming Languages, How To, Tech News, C, Python

4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Intro topic: Getting an entry-level job

News/Links:

Mario Kart 64 Fully Decompiled
- https://gbatemp.net/threads/mario-kart-64-decompilation-project-reaches-100-completion.671104/
Q-Learning is not yet scalable
- https://seohong.me/blog/q-learning-is-not-yet-scalable/
Grover’s Algorithm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWpF2Gb-gU&vl=en
OrangePi has a RISC-V SBC
- https://linuxgizmos.com/orangepi-rv2-a-cost-effective-risc-v-board-with-m-2-2280-slot-and-dual-gigabit-ethernet/

Book of the Show

Patrick
- The Will of the Many (James Islington)
  - https://amzn.to/44Dznsz
Jason
- The Intelligence Trap
  - https://amzn.to/3TqoKCB

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

Patrick
- Pokemon Odyssey
  - https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1l9zdta/pok%C3%A9mon_odyssey_final_release/
Jason
- Netflix Games
  - https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6891422865930303475&hl=en_US

Topic:

Why
- Speed up development
- Catch errors faster than type checking/compiling
- Writing tedious boilerplate code
- Ask questions and learn local information
- Look good for hiring managers
How
- Extensions for VSCode & other IDEs for inline suggestions
- Chat with a selection/file
- Command-line Tools run at the root directory
- Local vs Cloud
Examples
- Copilot (VSCode extension)
  - Use the experimental mode
- Cursor (Custom IDE)
  - Jumps to suggest changes in other places
  - Similar to copilot experimental mode
- RooCode (VSCode extension)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Programming Throwdown, Episode 182, AI assisted coding.
0:20.6	Take it away, Jason.
0:22.5	Hey, everybody. How's it going out there? How are you doing, Patrick?
0:26.9	I am doing well. I like how you asked a non-existent audience how they're doing.
0:33.5	I mean, the audience exists. They're just not live. Well, they'll be alive when they...
0:37.9	I hope everyone's doing well.
0:40.5	You can email us, even though it's like weeks later.
0:44.4	But...
0:45.2	So it's actually the day after Father's Day when we're recording this.
0:50.6	So did you do anything yesterday for Father's Day?
0:54.7	We did some... Does some low-key stuff. I don't know. I don't feel like it needs to be over
0:58.2	the top. How about you? Yeah, I mean, pretty much the same. I mean, we just, we kicked the
1:05.6	soccer ball with the boys, just pretty mundane stuff. Like, I don't really do anything too crazy for
1:12.3	Father's Day. Well, I feel like we should have had something more interesting to say.
1:19.8	No, well, we're going to jump into getting an entry-level job. So this is something that someone
1:27.1	asked on Discord.
1:29.0	This comes up very often in our pouring-and-throw-down email,
1:33.6	and I get a lot of messages on LinkedIn about this.
1:38.1	For whatever reason, like, LinkedIn is the place where everyone wants to talk.
1:44.8	I can't, like, I'll make a post on Twitter and get, like, 13 views.
1:49.0	I don't know why, but LinkedIn is just the place.
1:51.4	I guess because we are work-related people talking about work-related stuff.
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