Toad: Your AI Coding Agent Deserves a Better User Interface • Will McGugan & Olimpiu Pop

About this episode

Will McGugan and Olimpiu Pop discuss the redesign of AI coding interfaces.

This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. https://gotopia.tech Will McGugan - Creator of Toad & the Python Packages, Rich, Textual & PyFilesystem Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist ORIGINAL TALK TITLE The Python Dev Who Built Rich, Textual & now Toad Just Redesigned How You Talk to AI Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/437 RESOURCES Will https://mastodon.social/@willmcgugan https://x.com/willmcgugan https://bsky.app/profile/willmcgugan.bsky...

People in this episode

Guests: Will McGugan, Olimpiu Pop

Topics covered

• AI
• coding
• user interface
• Python
• technology
• interview

Keywords

• AI coding agent
• user interface
• Toad
• Python
• Rich
• Textual
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Toad, Python Packages, Rich, Textual, PyFilesystem, GOTO, gotopia.tech, mastodon.social, x.com, bsky.app

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