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Advanced Claude Code Workflows: Slash Commands, Subagents, and Quality Control

Advanced Claude Code Workflows: Slash Commands, Subagents, and Quality Control

Episode 40 August 7, 2025
Featuring: Jason Hand, Tara Schofield

Tara Schofield returns to dive deeper into advanced Claude Code techniques, demonstrating slash commands, subagents for validation, and sophisticated workflows for content creation at Datadog.

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Episode 39

Building Structured AI Workflows for Course Creation with Claude Code

Tara Schofield demonstrates how she uses Claude Code and systematic resource management to create security training courses at Datadog, showing how proper setup and context management leads to consistent, high-quality educational content.

August 7, 2025
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Episode 38

Understanding Technical Debt in the AI Era: Balancing Speed, Cost, and Quality

Jason Hand explores the concept of technical debt in the context of generative AI development, presenting a simplified visual model to understand how technical debt arises from imbalances between speed, cost, and quality considerations.

August 1, 2025
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Episode 37

Capturing Knowledge and Learning from Vibe Coding Sessions

Jason Hand introduces his automated retrospective system for capturing learnings during AI-assisted development sessions, demonstrating how to create real-time documentation and team knowledge bases for collaborative projects.

July 14, 2025
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Episode 36

Test-Driven Development and Building a Lovable Clone

Ryan MacLean shares his experience with test-driven development using Claude Code, demonstrating how to build a Lovable clone with Kubernetes, monitoring, and the importance of PRDs for complex AI-assisted projects.

July 14, 2025
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Episode 35

Observability and Monitoring for AI-Enabled Development

Jason Hand shares his approach to instrumenting AI-built applications with Datadog RUM, discussing the importance of monitoring fast-iterating projects and managing GitHub repositories for rapid development workflows.

July 7, 2025
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Episode 34

Building Remote MCP Servers with AWS Lambda and Serverless Architecture

James Eastham demonstrates how to build and deploy remote MCP servers using AWS Lambda, showing how serverless architecture provides the perfect environment for conversational AI interfaces with proper observability and security.

July 2, 2025
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Episode 33

Exploring Gemini CLI and MCP Servers for AI Development

Ryan MacLean demonstrates his workflow using Gemini CLI with MCP servers, showing how to set up sandbox environments and integrate with various AI coding tools for enhanced development productivity.

June 30, 2025
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Episode 32

Claude Code findings with Rust and TypeScript through Ray Tracing projects

In this candid engineering chat, Datadog developer advocate Scott Gerring walks Jason Hand through his latest experiments with Anthropic's Claude Code assistant. Gerring shows off a ray-traced teapot scene that Claude generated almost entirely on its own.

June 11, 2025
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Episode 31

Building client-side URL-based state apps using Claude 4 and Lovable

Jason Hand and Ryan MacLean chat and demonstrate practical uses of Claude and Lovable in coming up with and building on ideas very quickly .. daily .. almost as a personal challenge.

June 4, 2025
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