Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Theo and Ben

"The only dev podcast hosted by real devs" - Theo (not a real dev)

  1. 1d ago

    The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5...

    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! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composioWorkOS, your enterprise ready solution: https://nerdsnipe.link/workos Sources Available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/

    1h 33m

  2. Jun 15

    Our impressions of Claude Fable/Mythos (we filmed this before the ban)

    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! Firecrawl, the best api for searching and crawling the web: nerdsnipe.link/firecrawlDepot, better CI in every way: nerdsnipe.link/depotClerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk Sources https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2043177597434306699https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-codehttps://x.com/paradite_/status/2064585901351792887https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf (page 13 has the “prompt modification” quote)https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement Timestamps 0:00 Intro3:29 Fable First Impressions10:24 Benchmark Drama26:42 Claude Code & Workflows36:07 Pricing & June 22 Cutoff39:54 Data Retention45:58 Hidden Safeguards1:07:01 The Claude Constitution

    1h 17m

  3. Jun 10

    Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX?

    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! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio Sources: https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2062970770612199542https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2063099050719846719https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1963443919150330139https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568862479208923https://x.com/HSVSphere/status/2060396271756595666https://x.com/theo/status/2061018426152530232https://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

    1h 35m

  4. Jun 3

    We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8

    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! PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthogClerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk SOURCES https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343⁠https://x.com/zoink/status/2060769829133721974https://x.com/maria_rcks/status/2060937270824153251https://x.com/_catwu/status/2060054180379689074https://x.com/datacurve/status/2060834005998793199https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#resultshttps://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yamlhttps://deepswe.datacurve.ai/https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422https://x.com/theo/status/2060199299632472494https://x.com/theo/status/2060901326058561795https://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

    1h 15m

  5. May 28

    Google is Not a Serious Company

    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! Macroscope: ⁠nerdsnipe.link/macroscopeGeneral Translation: nerdsnipe.link/gt 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

    1h 23m

  6. May 20

    How the OpenClaw creator uses $1.3 million of tokens

    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

    1h 9m

  7. May 14

    Anthropic solved their compute problem by buying it from Elon?

    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

    1h 36m
  8. Theo Almost Lost $1 Million

    May 6

    Theo Almost Lost $1 Million

    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

    1h 47m
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