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.
According to Anthropic's commercial terms of service, customers are barred from using the service to 'build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models' or 'reverse engineer or duplicate' the services.
"Obviously, you don't want to spend too much on this solution, and it can be expensive because the model itself is pretty expensive, but at the same, you don't want to make that number too small, because like in some in a lot of ways, I think every dollar into this system, you know, is like more than one dollar out."