Claude meltdown, GPT-5 Codex CLI, Grok 4 Fast vs. $$$, Cursor vs. Claude Code, agents.md, and the coming AI-designer moment

🚀 Season 2, Ep 2 — Watch Out for AGI Remy & Emrick get hands-on with the week’s real developer news. 🧠 Claude drama: community reports of “dumber” outputs, Anthropic’s outage post, pricing limits, and why Remy downgraded from Claude Max. 🧰 Coding stacks: GPT-5 vs GPT-5 Codex (CLI), how it compares to Claude Code and Cursor, and why init-generated project context + agent.md is winning over claude.md/gemini.md (MCP + agents.md momentum). ⚡ Latency & pricing reality: VS Code “Open Codex” woes, model caps, and the “multiple Pro subs > one Max” hack. 🧮 Benchmarks & cost: Grok 4 Fast punching above its price, where DeepSeek fits, and why some “heavy” models may be deprecated. 🎨 Design is changing: Google Gemini + image/video tools (goodbye slow Photoshop pipelines?), the rise of instant icon sets and motion. 🔌 Infra bite: AI data centers nudging electric bills—what that means for users. 🧪 Announcement: we’re spinning up a community-driven AI Lab for practical research and papers. Keywords: LLMs, GPT-5 Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok 4 Fast, DeepSeek, Gemini, MCP, agents.md, developer workflow, AI tools, software development, automation.