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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

978: Should A New Coder Use AI?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Wes and Scott answer your questions about AI agents, learning to code with AI, pagination patterns, skilling up from outdated tech stacks, balancing side projects with family life, real-world hacking attempts, and more! Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:39 Are devs really running multiple AI agents at once? Scott’s Tweet 09:41 Brought to you by Sentry.io 12:45 What is pagination and why do websites use it? 18:17 Should beginners use AI while learning to code? 30:24 The real-world skills CS degrees don’t teach you 35:59 Someone tried to hack Syntax 38:12 How Wes and Scott became co-hosts 42:00 Moving from junior to mid-level when your skills are outdated 45:42 How do you balance time for side projects, life, and family 52:45 Building a ChatGPT-style RAG search for your resume 56:15 Why Chad Whitacre videos were on the Syntax YouTube channel Chad’s YouTube Channel 58:44 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Scott: Trmnl Wes: RYOBI Soldering Iron Shameless Plugs Syntax YouTube Channel 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 got a potluck episode for you. This is where you bring the questions.

0:04.4

We bring the answers. We got lots of really good questions, including somebody tried to hack us and we dive into the code that they wrote.

0:11.9

They tried to use an CSS and we'll detail it and sort of explain what that is.

0:16.8

Really good questions about like, are people really running five agents at once?

0:21.4

And what does that look like?

0:22.6

You know, like how do you possibly review that much code if you're running five at a time?

0:28.0

What are the different types of pagination?

0:30.1

Someone asked, like there's there's cursor base and there's page base and offset base and there's

0:34.0

infinite scroll and there's money that is being played into it as well.

0:39.4

Should a new coder use AI for coding? Like, what do you think? Right? Like, if you're just learning

0:45.3

to code, if you get HML CSS JavaScript, should you be using AI or not? Skilling up from

0:51.0

PHP and JQuery, someone wants to get a new job, but their skills are a little bit out of date.

0:54.9

What do you do in that case? And then finally, like, seems like you got a lot of side projects and stuff like that, West and Scott. How do you possibly manage that with kids and a family, all that good stuff? So those are the questions. Let's get into the first question, which is from Page Neeringhouse. always submits the best questions.

1:11.0

I just went and deemed her because I was like,

1:13.1

making a job easy page. question, which is from Page Needing House, always submits the best questions. I just went and

1:11.5

dimmed her because I was like, making a drop easy page. By the way, if you've got a potluck question

1:17.7

you'd like us to answer, go to syntax.com and there is a button in the URL bar or not the URL by

1:22.7

the menu that says potluck, click the button, put your question in the box and we will answer it for you

1:29.7

by the way somebody tried to cross-site script us which i put it i put it in this episode we're gonna

1:35.5

we're gonna debug why somebody cross-site script us but page says hey scott and west i want to ask

1:41.1

if you use multiple AI agents while you're writing code with

1:44.7

ClaudeCode, cursor, etc. I've become a big fan of using CloudCode to work on features day-to-day,

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