The Agentic Engineer Podcast

Nate Archer

Weekly AI agent intelligence for builders. The podcast companion to The Agentic Engineer newsletter by Nate Archer. Each week we break down the biggest stories in agentic AI — new frameworks, tools, infrastructure, and what it all means for developers building with agents.

  1. 15 jul

    Issue #21: GPT-5.6 Goes GA — Programmatic Tool Calling Changes Everything

    GPT-5.6 ships three tiers and Programmatic Tool Calling. Anthropic discovers Claude's silent internal workspace (J-Space). CubeSandbox gives agents hardware-isolated sandboxes in 60ms. Plus GRAM, OfficeCLI, Loom for AWS, and why Anthropic is an unreliable narrator.

  2. 8 jul

    The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #20: Better Models, Worse Tools

    Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 invent fake schema fields when calling third-party tools. Armin Ronacher investigated why RL training on Claude Code creates an accidental moat. OpenAI Codex accounts for 99.8% of all tokens internally. Strix hits #1 trending for AI pentesting. AWS CloudFormation Express Mode ships 4x faster deploys. Code cleanliness paper shows 7-8% token savings. And Zuckerberg says agents are hard while OpenAI says they work perfectly.

  3. 1 jul

    The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #19: GPT-5.6 Sol — The First Government-Gated Model Release

    OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 Sol behind government pre-approval. GLM 5.2 beats Claude Opus 4.8 on Semgrep's IDOR benchmark at 1/6 the cost. Google ships DESIGN.md for coding agent visual identity. AWS Lambda MicroVMs launch as GA serverless sandboxes for AI agents.

  4. 24 jun

    The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #18: Claude Requires Government ID — The Trust Fracture

    Anthropic requires government ID for Claude access. AWS Summit NYC expands AgentCore with managed knowledge base and web search. codebase-memory-mcp gains 6,372 stars. Flue ships sandbox agent framework for TypeScript. Project Fetch Phase 2 does robotics 20x faster. AWS Continuum launches autonomous security at machine speed.

  5. 17 jun

    The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #17: The First Frontier Model Recall

    US government pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from production. AWS ships three agentic services: DevOps Agent, FinOps Agent, OpenSearch MCP Apps. NVIDIA SkillSpector scans agent skills for 64 vulnerability patterns. AWS Blocks launches Infrastructure from Code.

  6. 10 jun

    Issue #16: Agentic Commerce Goes B2B — Amazon Shopping Agent, Perplexity 87% Time Savings, Ladybird Kills PRs

    Issue #16 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Amazon licenses its agentic shopping assistant to outside retailers — Kate Spade first, 60-day deploy, $12B internal revenue drove the decision. Perplexity publishes production data showing autonomous agents cut knowledge work time 87% and expand scope of what users attempt. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision. Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 land on AWS Bedrock. AWS MCP Server gets cross-account support. Bedrock Mantle Console redesigns the developer experience. And Ladybird kills public PRs because AI-generated contributions broke the effort-equals-good-faith assumption.

  7. 3 jun

    Issue #15: The Plugin Wars Begin — Anthropic Cowork Plugins, OpenSearch Next-Gen, Human-in-the-Loop

    Issue #15 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Anthropic open-sources 11 knowledge-work plugins for Claude Cowork in the simplest format possible: markdown and JSON. OpenSearch Serverless Next-Gen kills the $300/mo minimum with true scale-to-zero vector search. Self-improving agents go from 25% to 86% accuracy in production. And the hot take: human-in-the-loop is a liability when users approve 93% of prompts without reading them.

  8. 27 mei

    Issue #14: Mythos 10K Vulns, CodeGraph, Constraint Decay, AI Slop Issues

    Issue #14 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. Anthropic's Mythos Preview found 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities in 30 days across 50 Glasswing partners. A new paper proves coding agents collapse in convention-heavy frameworks like Django. CodeGraph cuts agent costs 35% with pre-indexed knowledge graphs. And AI-generated slop issues are poisoning open source repos.

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Weekly AI agent intelligence for builders. The podcast companion to The Agentic Engineer newsletter by Nate Archer. Each week we break down the biggest stories in agentic AI — new frameworks, tools, infrastructure, and what it all means for developers building with agents.

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