July 21st, 2025 × #AI#Coding#MCP#WebDev

AI Coding Roadmap for Newbies (And Skeptics)

Wes and Scott map out every way to code with AI, from ghost text to Claude Code, then walk through the building blocks of AI apps like streaming, embeddings, RAG, and MCP. Newbies and skeptics welcome, and bring your scratch folder.

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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.

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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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