In this episode, Beyang and Thorsten discuss strategies for effective agentic coding, including the 101 of how it's different from coding with chat LLMs, the key constraint of the context window, how and where subagents can help, and the new oracle subagent which combines multiple LLMs. 00:38 Intros 03:20 How coding with agents is very different from coding with prior AI tools 10:31 Example: fix a simple issue 14:13 Example: debugging an issue with an MCP server 21:50 Example: unifying two build scripts 25:09 How the context window is a key constraint 31:01 Why it's best to focus on one thing at a time 33:09 Subagents and context windows 33:49 The codebase search subagent 38:33 General-purpose subagents 44:05 When to use subagents 46:44 The oracle subagent and o3 51:32 Multi-model agents