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.

Episodes

  1. 1D AGO

    Issue #5: OpenCode 120K Stars, Claude Code Channels, Agent Memory Wars

    This week: OpenCode crosses 120K GitHub stars and 5M monthly devs. Claude Code ships Channels for event-driven coding agents. Hindsight hits #1 on LongMemEval for agent memory. Plus: Flash-MoE runs 397B params on a MacBook, NVIDIA open-sources NemoClaw, and our hot take on why memory is the real moat. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    15 min

  2. MAR 18

    Issue #4: An Autonomous Agent Hacked McKinsey in 2 Hours

    This week: An autonomous agent hacked McKinsey's AI platform in 2 hours with no credentials and no human in the loop. Amazon mandates senior engineer sign-off on all AI-assisted code. Claude gets 1M context at standard pricing. METR proves SWE-bench scores are misleading. Agent Browser Protocol freezes JavaScript for deterministic agent browsing. George Hotz says stop running 69 agents. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    17 min

  3. MAR 11

    Issue #3: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Claude Code Replacement

    This week: LangChain releases Deep Agents, an MIT-licensed coding agent built on LangGraph that works with any model. GPT-5.4 ships native computer use (75% OSWorld score). Karpathy drops autoresearch for autonomous ML experiments. Claude finds 22 Firefox zero-days in two weeks. Anthropic's labor market study shows junior hiring slowing. Alibaba OpenSandbox provides agent isolation infrastructure. SWE-CI benchmark tests long-term code maintenance. Shannon AI pentester only reports verified exploits. And the Clinejection attack: how a GitHub issue title compromised 4,000 developer machines. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    18 min

  4. MAR 4

    Issue #2: Claude Code Is Picking Your Stack, Anthropic's Wild Week, Mercury 2

    This week: Researchers analyzed 2,430 Claude Code responses and mapped the default developer stack. Anthropic gets designated a supply-chain risk AND drops its safety pledge in the same week. Mercury 2 hits 1,009 tokens/sec via diffusion. Steerling-8B explains every token it generates. CLIHub cuts MCP token costs by 94%. Plus the Agent Index and a hot take on the end of the "responsible AI" era. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    13 min

  5. FEB 25

    Issue #1: Mercury 2, Agentic IDEs & The Plumbing Era

    This week: Mercury 2's diffusion-based decoding hits 1,000+ tokens/sec. Emdash runs 21 coding agents in parallel. Cloudflare ships a full agent hosting SDK. Hugging Face standardizes agent skills. And why "agentic" just became an infrastructure category. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

    5 min
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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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