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| Meta Made A Frontier Model, Google Still Can't Even With Gemini 4 | 22 oct. 2026 | 02:00:25 | |
Theo & Ben are back this week to talk all about how Meta's Muse Wonder is here to impress and it seems like Google still can't make a frontier model! We're breaking it all down, including the random appearance of the Tesla Roadster! Thank you to Paper & General Translation for Sponsoring!
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Timestamps: 0:00 Gemini Fanboys Intro 4:31 Gemini 4 Argon Benchmarks vs Reality 16:27 Google's Pricing and Falling Behind 20:30 Grok 4.7 vs Gemini 4 25:01 Google Book and Z Fold Android Pain 36:40 Music Piracy and Computer Use 49:18 Anthropic's Growth and Vibe Coding 59:19 Can AI Replace Human Taste 1:28:17 DeepSeek 1017 and Open Weights 1:34:58 Roadster Flying Car and Wrap Bet 1:51:30 Hunting Tedious Work with Agents #ai #programming #tech #coding | |||
| OpenAI's Dev Day Was a Disappointment & T3 Code's New Orchestrator Shines | 12 oct. 2026 | 02:20:16 | |
With OpenAI’s new $500 plan lands alongside reduced subscription value, Theo and Ben explain why cheaper tokens aren’t making DevDay feel like a win, T3 Code's new Orchestrator setup, and more! Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Posthog:
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Sources available on our Substack: Timestamps: 00:00 OpenAI Dev Day 07:31 T3 Code & Claude Code 20:51 Orchestration V2 30:03 Autoresearch & agent workflows 47:18 AI pricing & API costs 1:19:16 Claude Code & T3 updates 1:35:13 Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 1:54:24 Dots & proactive AI 2:01:59 More Dev Day features 2:11:30 Grok in Tesla | |||
| Opus 5.5 is the best model ever made, Grok 4.7 exists, GPT 6 Sol & Luna Impress, and why Jev isn't the solution to everything | 30 sept. 2026 | 02:08:57 | |
Theo and Ben break down a packed week of AI releases, from Opus 5.5's insane release to Grok 4.7 falling short of the hype. They then dig into why post-training matters, where Jev, GPT-6 Sol, and Luna fit, and more! Thank you to General Translation & Paper for Sponsoring!
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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 3:18 GPT-6 Sol & Luna 14:58 Grok 4.7 38:47 Jev explained 52:48 Why model routing fails 1:05:06 Opus 5.5 1:26:17 Pricing & usage limits 1:34:23 Building games with Opus 1:41:10 Porting TypeScript to Rust 1:48:57 Agent workflows & testing | |||
| Why Pacing AI Won't Stop the Apocalypse, Apple Ruins UI/UX with the IPhone Duo, and How Unlimited Tokens Changes Basically Nothing | 19 sept. 2026 | 02:32:45 | |
Theo & Ben break down Jacob Coxon's resignation after three years in pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic—and his warning that both labs are racing toward AGI and gambling with our lives—along with Dario's latest blog post about pacing the frontier and how Apple's iPhone Duo could have ruined app development (if AI didn't exist). Thanks to this episode's sponsor, PostHog:
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Sources available on our Substack: Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:53 New iPhones 22:24 Apple and Carriers 32:38 Astra’s Reliability 47:55 Codex Usage and Caching 1:19:44 Anthropic Resignation 1:38:38 Pacing the Frontier 1:40:02 Embedded AI Evaluators 1:43:10 The Hugging Face Hack 2:02:29 React Native Debate 2:09:18 Fast Inference Tradeoffs 2:12:40 Democratic AI Coordination 2:18:22 China and Global Pacing | |||
| Anthropic's Answer to Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash Killed Benchmarks, and Muse Spark 1.3's Pretty Good | 10 sept. 2026 | 02:05:02 | |
Theo & Ben break down their latest thoughts on how Astra and Fable 5.1's releases have changed the way they work, how they interact in T3 Code, and then circle back to the latest with Codex usage limits, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, and the growing gap between model benchmarks and real coding workflows. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation:
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Sources available on our Substack: Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 04:57 Gemini 3.8 Flash 14:48 Muse Spark & small models 22:08 AI subscriptions 34:14 GPT-6 Astra launch & pricing 56:04 Rate limits & autonomous coding 1:10:14 Fable 5.1 1:23:23 AI design & 3D demos 1:40:53 Astra vs. Fable: Which to use? | |||
| We've Been Using GPT-6 Astra for a Few Weeks, Here's What We Think... | 03 sept. 2026 | 01:51:09 | |
Theo & Ben break down OpenAI's latest model, Astra, and why it's their new benchmark for AI coding, computer use, and multimodal work. But it's not all good: they explain why its UI, stopping behavior, and agent reliability still create friction in real software workflows. From DEFCON puzzles to coding-agent PRs, we're comparing Astra with Fable and asking what a trustworthy OpenAI model should do next. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode!
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Sources available on our Substack: Timestamps 00:00 Meet Astra 04:03 Best Model Ever, With Catches 06:33 Reasoning and 3D Benchmarks 20:00 Astra Rebuilds Ping.gg 30:04 Instruction-Following Problems 44:47 The Uncommitted Fix Debate 01:09:37 The PR Babysitting Failure 01:22:41 Why Fable Still Wins 01:30:41 Multimodal and Computer Use 01:39:29 Astra vs. Fable Fleet Data | |||
| Ox Alpha Revealed, OpenAI's Latest Pricing Updates, and Our Coding Model Tier List | 28 août 2026 | 02:42:56 | |
Theo & Ben break down OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol price cut, breakdown the "Ox Alpha" stealth model we now know is GLM 5.3 Flash, then take a drink every time they say "Grok" while ranking every current AI model on a tier list! What could go wrong? Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation:
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Sources available on our Substack: Timestamps 0:00 Intro 3:30 OpenAI vs. Anthropic 14:44 Anthropic’s delayed models 20:53 Kimi K3 and open weights 30:08 The Alpha stealth model 48:26 Model tier list begins 1:09:53 GPT-5.6 Luna 1:13:09 Opus and Sonnet 1:20:25 Gemini models 1:31:15 DeepSeek and local models 1:59:58 Fable vs. Sol 2:28:46 Final rankings | |||
| Anthropic Doesn't Think You Can Be Trusted, China is closing the gap, SpaceXAI Leaps Ahead, and DEF CON | 20 août 2026 | 02:18:05 | |
Anthropic started watermarking their model's outputs, Dario posted on X, SpaceXAi is getting really good really fast, Meta is shipping again, and we won DEF CON 2026. Thank you PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools for sponsoring today's Episode! Check them out at: nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: - Spotify: nerdsnipe.link/spotify - Apple: nerdsnipe.link/apple - Elsewhere: nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: nerdsnipe.substack.com Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:56 Claude Watermarks 15:04 Meta + Muse 48:48 GLM-5.3 55:15 Qwen + DeepSeek 1:08:48 Grok 4.6 + Bot 1:20:15 Gavin vs Dario 1:43:44 DEFCON 2:15:35 Viewer Q&A | |||
| Opus 5 Releases, China Catches Up, and the OpenAI Model Sandbox Escape | 28 juil. 2026 | 01:23:29 | |
Theo and Ben break down why Opus 5 feels like GPT-5.5 crossed with Fable rather than GPT-5.6 crossed with Fable, what Fable found when it audited an Opus thread line by line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation:
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| 5 different models dropped last week & the GPT-5.6 usage limits are brutal | 14 juil. 2026 | 02:06:15 | |
This week Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live, and GPT 5.6 all dropped. Theo and Ben break down which models you should care about, how OpenAI fumbled the Codex to ChatGPT app transition, the abysmal usage numbers for 5.6, and the latest drama surrounding OpenAI and Sam Altman. Plus, how many satellites would it take to trap humanity on Earth, and how many data centers to heat up the ocean? Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Composio & WorkOs. Sources available on Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ | |||
| We Tested GPT 5.6 Sol Early | 09 juil. 2026 | 01:11:15 | |
We've spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI's 5.6 Sol model to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. Also, we breakdown why we both moved our agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs Claude Code subagent gap that's now bigger than the model gap itself. Thanks to this episode's sponsors Clerk and General Translation:
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| Fable Is Back...kinda? | 08 juil. 2026 | 01:16:51 | |
Fable was supposed to give us 14 days and instead we got 3 before the export ban. Now it's back at half the rate limits. Also, we break down why AI-generated Claude Code skills fall apart, what actually triggers Fable-to-Opus rerouting, the Mythos export-control timeline, and whether GLM 5.2 can really touch Sonnet 5. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode!
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| GPT-5.6 is here! And none of us can use it. | 30 juin 2026 | 01:11:33 | |
A new "government-approved rollout" for GPT-5.6 is coming, and it's got us wondering: are we entering the next dark age of AI model access? Additionally, we break down the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier model access looks like in a Fable/Mythos-tier world. Thank you to Composio for sponsoring this episode!
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| The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5... | 24 juin 2026 | 01:33:05 | |
The US government banned Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models just after launch so we break down exactly how Project Glass Wing, a panicked AWS engineer, and Dario's failure to communicate with Washington triggered the chaos. Plus: SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition, GLM 5.2 beating Google, the Codex trick for running 200 parallel agents, and why your next GPU will ship with a GPS tracker Thank you to Composio and WorkOS for sponsoring this episode!
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| Our impressions of Claude Fable/Mythos (we filmed this before the ban) | 15 juin 2026 | 01:17:11 | |
RIP Fable 5. We recorded this before it got taken offline, but it's still worth talking about. The model is incredible. We really miss it. Thank you, Firecrawl, Depot, and Clerk for sponsoring!
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| Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX? | 10 juin 2026 | 01:35:15 | |
Cloudflare buys Void0, Google buying up compute from xAI, and Claude seems to be getting more anxious so we're here to break down everything this week on another episode of Nerd Snipe! Thank you to Composio for sponsoring today's episode!
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01:58 Cloudflare vs Vercel 13:03 Convex angle 19:59 SpaceX compute 35:49 AI self-improvement 44:45 Article reactions 50:28 Claude anxiety 57:42 Guardrails 01:08:21 Cursed image gen 01:19:18 Hermes agents | |||
| We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8 | 03 juin 2026 | 01:15:07 | |
Opus 4.8 + a ton of new stuff in Claude Code dropped this week, and we actually kinda like it. There's also a new benchmark that's actually good, and we have a lot of thoughts about the future of these AI labs... Thank you PostHog and Clerk for sponsoring!
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00:00 - Shower Thoughts 02:44 - Deep SWE Benchmark 10:45 - Opus vs GPT-5.5 19:57 - Anthropic’s Huge Raise 25:39 - Token Maxing 40:02 - AI Slot Machine 43:49 - Claude Code Friction 50:01 - Opus, Mythos, and Safety | |||
| Google is Not a Serious Company | 28 mai 2026 | 01:22:46 | |
Not only did Google accidentally ban Railway's account, but their new flagship model Gemini 3.5 Flash is absurdly bad. Oh and apparently Theo's building his own cloud... Thank you Macroscope and GT for sponsoring today's episode!
SOURCES https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823 https://x.com/JustJake/status/2056881510939283776 https://x.com/KorduGG/status/2059141337895604626 https://x.com/unboringtech/status/2059144145273491610 TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Gemini fallout 05:21 - Video gen 10:10 - Google Cloud 14:04 - Windsurf/Cursor 25:10 - Manus/Meta 30:00 - China lock-in 35:00 - Cursor/xAI 45:00 - Cloud workflows 50:32 - Lakebed 65:22 - Hermes/security | |||
| How the OpenClaw creator uses $1.3 million of tokens | 20 mai 2026 | 01:09:19 | |
Peter, the creator of openclaw is apparently going through $1,300,000 worth of tokens every month. Seems like we're not using nearly enough tokens. Oh and the security psychosis is getting worse. (Anthropic is being bad again too) Thank you to today's sponsors! - AgentMail, email inboxes for your agents: nerdsnipe.link/agentmail - Clerk, the best experience for auth, orgs, billing, and more: nerdsnipe.link/clerk TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 02:44 - Token Spend 06:47 - Token Future 12:12 - Secure Agents 22:50 - Anthropic Rules 31:35 - Security 39:36 - Token Tax 49:49 - AI Psychosis 59:47 - macOS 01:01:43 - AI Video | |||
| Anthropic solved their compute problem by buying it from Elon? | 14 mai 2026 | 01:36:23 | |
Anthropic seems to have finally solved their compute problems (kinda) by buying it from Elon, the security problem is getting so much worse, and apparently Bun's getting re-written in rust? Thank you to PostHog and Composio for sponsoring today's episode! - PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog - Composio, connect your agents to everything: nerdsnipe.link/composio Sources/references: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2052060691893227611 https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit/#december-2018-elon-told-us-to-raise-billions-per-year-immediately-or-forget-it https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2053391824702898475 https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2051595933704761618 https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310 https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures https://x.com/thdxr/status/2053570581807722968 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2052691176373805534 https://x.com/garrytan/status/2052996691586932783 TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Anthropic/xAI00:08:59 - OpenAI Lawsuit00:25:40 - Bun in Rust00:34:34 - Security00:59:28 - Pottery Coding01:11:11 - Local Models | |||
| Theo Almost Lost $1 Million | 06 mai 2026 | 01:47:03 | |
This week Theo nearly lost a million dollars and Ben got AI psychosis (from gstack)... Thank you to Coderabbit and Clerk for sponsoring today's episode! - Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk Sources/references: - https://x.com/theo/status/2014863266888233193 - https://x.com/theo/status/2050305813894648289 - https://x.com/theo/status/2050314995561611357 - https://x.com/sama/status/2050671161915371998 - https://x.com/davis7/status/2050718508372431026 - https://x.com/thdxr/status/2050719575033983323 - https://x.com/davis7/status/2050762009592148375 - https://x.com/naval/status/2050560057675522500 - https://x.com/theo/status/1952229335416623592 00:00 - Intro / studio return 00:52 - Azure $1M / Microsoft 11:22 - Cloud platform talk 18:08 - Coding agents / SDKs 29:06 - GPT-5.5 pricing debate 45:14 - OpenClaw workflows 01:12:37 - G Stack / G Brain01:29:00 - Dynamic UI / wrap-up | |||
| We need to talk about OpenAI | 01 mai 2026 | 01:35:56 | |
OpenAI and Microsoft are breaking up, Sam's drunk posting, Anthropic is being stupid again, and we still disagree about GPT-5.5Thanks to this episode's sponsors: - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk- Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit- PlanetScale, the fastest and most scalable cloud databases: https://nerdsnipe.link/planetscale 00:00 Intro 04:05 Sam drunk tweets1 3:13 Anthropic billing woes 28:27 OpenAI divorce 42:34 GitHub can't stop dying 59:40 GPT-5.5 retrospective Sources/references: https://x.com/sama/status/2046808114561974567 https://x.com/sama/status/2046808217133670800 https://x.com/sama/status/2048160404376105179 https://x.com/sama/status/2047403771416940715 https://x.com/om_patel5/status/2048204411986469232 https://x.com/MSFTnews/status/2048749108127506936 https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2048834949667537369 https://x.com/theo/status/2047721472521621991 https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049213597419774026 https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2047803291988590609 https://x.com/ryanflorence/status/2048538797638599109 https://x.com/davis7/status/2048239401059434710 https://x.com/davis7/status/2048077518725366173 | |||
| We've been testing GPT-5.5 for a few weeks now... | 23 avr. 2026 | 01:44:10 | |
Anthropic month is finally over. We've got a ton to talk about: GPT-5.5 pre-release impressions, the Vercel hack, Cursor + xAI, Qwen models, Kimi k2.6, and so much more...Thank you to today's Sponsors! Depot, truly modern CI: nerdsnipe.link/depot Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk TIMESTAMPS00:00:00 - Intro, vacation chaos, and episode setup 00:01:34 - Vercel hack explained and security fallout 00:05:38 - Kimi K2.6 and the rise of strong open-weight models 00:14:29 - Cursor + xAI/SpaceX partnership and acquisition option 00:37:24 - GPT Image 2 impressions, strengths, and flaws 00:43:53 - Anthropic Cloud Code Pro pricing controversy 00:49:30 - GPT-5.5 first impressions: split opinions 01:02:25 - Critiques of GPT-5.5 for coding, context, and prompting 01:22:02 - GPT-5.5 Pro | |||
| Theo gets conspiratorial about Anthropic | 22 avr. 2026 | 01:04:25 | |
Really hope that Anthropic month is almost over. But at least for now we gotta talk about Opus 4.7, Claude Design, and much much more...Thank you to this episode's sponsor Clerk! The best DX in auth by a mile: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerkOur RSS feed: https://nerdsnipe.link/rssFollow on spotify and everywhere else you get your podcasts! https://nerdsnipe.link/podTIMESTAMPS00:00:00 Anthropic Again...00:07:30 T3 Code Banned?00:16:08 How Claude Caching Works00:24:00 Why Claude Seems Dumber00:38:03 The Conspiracies Begin... | |||
| We need to talk about gstack | 18 avr. 2026 | 01:01:06 | |
Diving into Mythos, Claude reasoning, post-AI Uncle Bob, GStack, Thank you to today's sponsors! Coderabbit The AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk The auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk 00:00:00 - Welcome to the TBPNN Show 00:02:50 - Anthropic's Mythos model 00:11:14 - Anthropic nerfed Claude's reasoning effort 00:14:20 - We should be scared of mythos 00:24:20 - Post-AI Uncle Bob 00:29:34 - Static Typing vs Dynamic Typing and Linting 00:36:23 - Claude Code Skills 00:40:49 - GStack is actually good 00:46:53 - Are we boiling in the ocean? 00:51:07 - Everything should be a md file 00:55:23 - Peace Out Nerds | |||
| Anthropic Can't Stop Making Mistakes | 09 avr. 2026 | 01:21:47 | |
Talking about everything that went wrong with Anthropic last week (source code leak, rate limits, banning openclaw, and so much more) + our new favorite coding agent Pi. Thank you to this episode's sponsors! Coderabbit The AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk The auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk | |||