We (mostly) like Opus 4.8...
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
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You should go check out both of them.
They're really good.
We (mostly) like Opus 4.8...
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
Thank you Macroscope and GT for sponsoring today's episode!
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We saw that @steipete is spending over $1.3m in tokens every month. We're not tokenmaxxing hard enough.
This was a very fun episode :)
00:00 - Intro
02:44 - Tokenmaxxing
12:12 - Secure Agents
22:50 - Anthropic Rules
31:35 - Security
39:36 - Token Taxxing
49:49 - AI Psychosis
59:47 - macOS hell
01:01:43 - AI Video is dangerous
This might be my favorite podcast episode yet. We covered everything from the OpenAI lawsuit to my developing security psychosis
00:00:00 - Anthropic/xAI
00:08:59 - OpenAI Lawsuit
00:25:40 - Bun in Rust
00:34:34 - Security
00:59:28 - Pottery Coding
01:11:11 - Local Models
I almost lost $1,000,000. Obviously we had to talk about it on the podcast.
00:00 - Intro
00:52 - Azure Woes
11:22 - Cloud platform talk
18:08 - Coding agents
29:06 - GPT-5.5 pricing debate
45:14 - OpenClaw workflows
01:12:37 - G Stack / G Brain
01:29:00 - Dynamic UI
OpenAI is getting divorced. Sam is drunk tweeting. Github is dying. Anthropic is being Anthropic.
Oh, and Ben has a fun surprise :)
I enjoyed this episode a lot and I hope you guys do too
00:00 - Intro
04:05 - Sam drunk tweets
13:13 - Anthropic billing woes
28:27 - OpenAI divorce
42:34 - GitHub can't stop dying
59:40 - GPT-5.5 retrospective
GPT-5.5 is here. Ben and I have had access for a bit. We have a lot of thoughts.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:34 - Vercel hack
00:05:38 - Kimi K2.6
00:14:29 - Cursor acquired?
00:37:24 - GPT Image 2
00:49:30 - GPT-5.5
01:22:02 - GPT-5.5 Pro
Third episode of Nerd Snipe is live! This time I try to get Ben in on my Anthropic conspiracy theories (and explain why Claude got dumber)
00:07:30 T3 Code Banned?
00:16:08 How Claude Caching Works
00:24:00 Why Claude Seems Dumber
00:38:03 The Conspiracies Begin...
Second episode of the podcast. @davis7 spends most of this episode trying to gstack pill me. Did he succeed?
00:02:50 - Is Mythos legit?
00:24:20 - Post-AI Uncle Bob @unclebobmartin
00:36:23 - Praising Claude Code a bit
00:40:49 - GStack is actually good @garrytan
00:51:07 - Everything should be a md file
Welcome to the FIRST EPISODE of TBPNN (Theo & Ben Podcast News Network)
jkjk we're calling it Nerd Snipe. Available on Youtube, Spotify, and coming to all your favorite podcast networks soon™