Episodes

  • GPT-5.6 is here! And none of us can use it.
    Jun 30 2026

    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.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5...
    Jun 24 2026

    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


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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Our impressions of Claude Fable/Mythos (we filmed this before the ban)
    Jun 15 2026

    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.


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    Sources

    • https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2043177597434306699
    • https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code
    • https://x.com/paradite_/status/2064585901351792887
    • https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf (page 13 has the “prompt modification” quote)
    • https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

    Timestamps

    • 0:00 Intro
    • 3:29 Fable First Impressions
    • 10:24 Benchmark Drama
    • 26:42 Claude Code & Workflows
    • 36:07 Pricing & June 22 Cutoff
    • 39:54 Data Retention
    • 45:58 Hidden Safeguards
    • 1:07:01 The Claude Constitution
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX?
    Jun 10 2026

    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!


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    Sources:

    • https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047
    • https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2062970770612199542
    • https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2063099050719846719
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/
    • https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1963443919150330139
    • https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568862479208923
    • https://x.com/HSVSphere/status/2060396271756595666
    • https://x.com/theo/status/2061018426152530232
    • https://x.com/Teknium/status/2062522290504613944

    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

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8
    Jun 3 2026

    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...


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    SOURCES

    • https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
    • https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241
    • https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343
    • ⁠https://x.com/zoink/status/2060769829133721974
    • https://x.com/maria_rcks/status/2060937270824153251
    • https://x.com/_catwu/status/2060054180379689074
    • https://x.com/datacurve/status/2060834005998793199
    • https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
    • https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#results
    • https://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yaml
    • https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
    • https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422
    • https://x.com/theo/status/2060199299632472494
    • https://x.com/theo/status/2060901326058561795
    • https://x.com/38twelveDaily/status/2060408696945975631

    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

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Google is Not a Serious Company
    May 28 2026

    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...


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    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

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • How the OpenClaw creator uses $1.3 million of tokens
    May 20 2026

    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)


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    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

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Anthropic solved their compute problem by buying it from Elon?
    May 14 2026

    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?


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    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

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    1 hr and 36 mins