#developer-tooling

#developer-tooling

Agentic AI programming is what happens when coding assistants stop acting like autocomplete and start collaborating on real work. In this episode, we cut through the hype and incentives to define "agentic," then get hands-on with how tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and LangChain actually behave inside an established codebase. Our guest, Matt Makai, now VP of Developer Relations at DigitalOcean, creator of Full Stack Python and Plushcap, shares hard-won tactics.

When I started off learning Rust, I was reading the Rust book, the official book, and it really resonated with me when they started speaking about option types, and result types, algebraic data types, and all those things. It occurred to me at that time, or it was the first time it clicked, that you could move this burden of discipline from yourself to the language.