AI Coding Roadmap for Newbies (And Skeptics)

Welcome to Syntax. Today we got an episode for you on an AI coding road map for anyone who maybe has has put it off for a while. You're or you're relatively new to coding with AI, like writing code with AI, as well as writing code for AI, meaning that you like use the libraries as part of your application. So, we're saying for newbies, but we're also saying for skeptics where I know there's probably quite a few people, probably

myself included in to some degree, hopefully all of us to some degree, where you're kind of sitting there being like, is it really that good? Um, is it really going to change how we how we do this type of thing? So, we're going to we're going to run through basically how to actually write code, all the different interfaces. Um, and then also building things with AI. So, like understanding all of the different parts, uh, context, tokens, prompting,

all of the different models that are out there, streaming, embedding, rag, all those words that you're going to be hearing about. What's up? My name is Wes. I'm at the cottage right now and I forgot my nice camera. So, this 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 out there at the cabin. That's uh right time of year for doing that kind of thing, right? So, um I'm up at the cottage right now and we were just talking about it and me and Scott were not be able to talk to each other

and the video was glitching out and I was doing I'm on Starlink and I was getting like like 100 120 megabits down. I was getting about 10 to 12 up which is is usually not an issue. Uh but it was just not working right. And and the pings were were decent. So I switched to my LTE cell phone. Now I'm getting four down, two up, and the video is way better. And the ping is the ping is

fine. So I don't know, man. That's it. Yeah, it's bizarre. Yeah, definitely bizarre. And it definitely is easier to talk to you right now. Uh, hey Wes, I did some soldering um yesterday. No, this weekend, not yesterday. On Sunday. Well, I have this I' I've been digitizing all my bands old footage, which are on like high DV uh tapes. I don't even know if it's DV. They're on high eight tapes, which are these like tapes this size. And so I've been digitizing it all, throwing it on YouTube because like,

hey man, you know, that stuff's just going to get lost to time if I don't. I have a little device that takes an RCA in and does HDMI out. Uh, so that way I can do cam link and whatever. And the USB, micro USB came unsoldered from the board and I soldered it back on. That's impressive. Wow. that that's pretty tiny. It's It's tiny. I'm doing the little thing. Listen, if I bump it the wrong way, it the connection goes out. So, I just got to like leave it. It's not It's

by no means a professional job, but I am a a terrible uh solderer. So, I I just wanted to to, you know, toot my own horn here for a second. Can we say that micro USB was the worst of all connectors? It's got those little prongs in it, so every time you pull it in or out, it either stays in or like uh comes right out immediately. Yeah. Yeah. Mini USB was far superior to micro USB

in terms of shape or design or what. It just I don't know. It just was better. It was easier easier to figure out which which way it went in. Micro USB sucked. Sucked. It probably it goes lightning as the very lowest of all. Yes. Um, and then all the way up to like what USBC, although they got their own problems on the top. Lightning decided that a wafer was the best design of a vanilla wafer that could just snap off at any time. All right, let's get on into it. Um,