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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

921: AI Coding Roadmap for Newbies (And Skeptics)

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to syntax. Today, we've got an episode for you on an AI coding roadmap for anyone who

0:08.3

maybe has put it off for a while, or you're relatively new to coding with AI, like writing

0:15.1

code with AI, as well as writing code for AI, meaning that you like use the libraries as part of your application.

0:23.0

So we're saying for newbies, but we're also saying for skeptics, where I know there's probably

0:28.0

quite a few people, probably myself included in, to some degree, hopefully all of us to some

0:34.4

degree, where you're kind of sitting there being like, is it really that good?

0:39.3

Is it really going to change how we do this type of thing?

0:43.4

So we're going to run through basically how to actually write code all the different

0:49.1

interfaces and then also building things with AI. So like understanding all of the different parts,

0:57.6

context, tokens, prompting all of the different models that are out there, streaming,

1:03.6

embedding, rag, all those words that you're going to be hearing about. What's up? My name is Wes.

1:08.3

I'm at the cottage right now, and I forgot my nice camera. So is actually not not bad though this is my iPhone 13 just on a tripod and it's that's that's decent video quality eh hey man it looks great and uh yeah happy you're out there at the cabin that's a right time of year for doing that kind of thing right right? So I'm up at the cottage right now, and we're just talking about it.

1:31.0

And me and Scott were not be able to talk to each other, and the video was glitching out.

1:37.2

And I was doing, I'm on Starlink, and I was getting like 100, 120 megabits down.

1:42.8

I was getting about 10 to 12 up, which is usually not an issue.

1:48.5

But it was just not working, right? And the pings were decent. So I switched to my LTE cell phone.

1:56.1

Now I'm getting four down, two up. And the video is way better. And the ping is fine.

2:03.0

So I don't know, man, that's...

2:04.7

Yeah, it's bizarre, huh?

2:07.1

Yeah, definitely bizarre.

2:08.9

And it definitely is easier to talk to you right now.

2:12.2

Hey, Wes, I did some soldering yesterday.

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