What's happening for people building with AI tools: what shipped, what changed, and how to use it.

Edition date: 2026-11-09

Chapters:
00:00 OpenAI Buys Pierre Computer to Give Codex Better Code Review Tools
01:12 Claude Code Keeps Parallel Feature Work in One Conversation
02:05 Microsoft's Free TokenEconomizer Add-On Cuts Costs of Code-Writing AI Agents 18% to 31%
03:05 OpenAI's ChatGPT Dots Assistants Keep Working on Their Own Cloud Computer After You Close the App
03:55 Google's Top AI Model Leads a Ranking but Only Security Defenders Can Use It Yet

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What's happening for people building with AI tools: what shipped, what changed, and how to use it.

Edition date: 2026-11-02

Chapters:
00:00 OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra is priced 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol
01:14 Mistral publishes weights for Mistral Large 4, a trillion-parameter model pitched at cyber defense
02:03 A fake AGENTS.md instruction file steered a coding agent into rewriting its own settings
02:55 Replit's ViBench 2.0 has agents build whole products feature by feature, and the best pass only 49-65% of builds
03:47 Otto, a free open-source Mac app, runs Claude Code and Codex agents from one place

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What's happening for people building with AI tools: what shipped, what changed, and how to use it.

Edition date: 2026-10-26

In this episode

• Anthropic previews Claude Duet, an always-on agent that works from its own cloud computer
• OpenAI will cut Cursor off from its own models on November 12
• OpenAI's models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden, billed through Google
• Mistral launches Voxtral 3 speech models and a new Voice Agents API
• ChatGPT team tasks let a whole team run and tune one recurring job in the cloud

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