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With OpenAI’s new $500 plan lands alongside reduced subscription value, Theo and Ben explain why cheaper tokens aren’t making DevDay feel like a win, T3 Code's new Orchestrator setup, and more! Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Posthog: Posthog: https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotifyApple: https://nerdsnipe.link/appleElsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 OpenAI Dev Day 07:31 T3 Code & Claude Code 20:51 Orchestration V2 30:03 Autoresearch & agent workflows 47:18 AI pricing & API costs 1:19:16 Claude Code & T3 updates 1:35:13 Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6.1 1:54:24 Dots & proactive AI 2:01:59 More Dev Day features 2:11:30 Grok in Tesla

Theo and Ben break down a packed week of AI releases, from Opus 5.5's insane release to Grok 4.7 falling short of the hype. They then dig into why post-training matters, where Jev, GPT-6 Sol, and Luna fit, and more! Thank you to General Translation & Paper for Sponsoring! General Translation: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/gtPaper: https://nerdsnipe.link/paper Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotifyApple: https://nerdsnipe.link/appleElsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 3:18 GPT-6 Sol & Luna 14:58 Grok 4.7 38:47 Jev explained 52:48 Why model routing fails 1:05:06 Opus 5.5 1:26:17 Pricing & usage limits 1:34:23 Building games with Opus 1:41:10 Porting TypeScript to Rust 1:48:57 Agent workflows & testing

Theo & Ben break down Jacob Coxon's resignation after three years in pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic—and his warning that both labs are racing toward AGI and gambling with our lives—along with Dario's latest blog post about pacing the frontier and how Apple's iPhone Duo could have ruined app development (if AI didn't exist). Thanks to this episode's sponsor, PostHog: PostHog: https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotifyApple: https://nerdsnipe.link/appleElsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:53 New iPhones 22:24 Apple and Carriers 32:38 Astra’s Reliability 47:55 Codex Usage and Caching 1:19:44 Anthropic Resignation 1:38:38 Pacing the Frontier 1:40:02 Embedded AI Evaluators 1:43:10 The Hugging Face Hack 2:02:29 React Native Debate 2:09:18 Fast Inference Tradeoffs 2:12:40 Democratic AI Coordination 2:18:22 China and Global Pacing

Theo & Ben break down their latest thoughts on how Astra and Fable 5.1's releases have changed the way they work, how they interact in T3 Code, and then circle back to the latest with Codex usage limits, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, and the growing gap between model benchmarks and real coding workflows. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 04:57 Gemini 3.8 Flash 14:48 Muse Spark & small models 22:08 AI subscriptions 34:14 GPT-6 Astra launch & pricing 56:04 Rate limits & autonomous coding 1:10:14 Fable 5.1 1:23:23 AI design & 3D demos 1:40:53 Astra vs. Fable: Which to use?

Theo & Ben break down OpenAI's latest model, Astra, and why it's their new benchmark for AI coding, computer use, and multimodal work. But it's not all good: they explain why its UI, stopping behavior, and agent reliability still create friction in real software workflows. From DEFCON puzzles to coding-agent PRs, we're comparing Astra with Fable and asking what a trustworthy OpenAI model should do next. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode! PostHog, all-in-one suite of product tools: https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotifyApple: https://nerdsnipe.link/appleElsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps 00:00 Meet Astra 04:03 Best Model Ever, With Catches 06:33 Reasoning and 3D Benchmarks 20:00 Astra Rebuilds Ping.gg 30:04 Instruction-Following Problems 44:47 The Uncommitted Fix Debate 01:09:37 The PR Babysitting Failure 01:22:41 Why Fable Still Wins 01:30:41 Multimodal and Computer Use 01:39:29 Astra vs. Fable Fleet Data

Theo & Ben break down OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol price cut, breakdown the "Ox Alpha" stealth model we now know is GLM 5.3 Flash, then take a drink every time they say "Grok" while ranking every current AI model on a tier list! What could go wrong? Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotifyApple: https://nerdsnipe.link/appleElsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 3:30 OpenAI vs. Anthropic 14:44 Anthropic’s delayed models 20:53 Kimi K3 and open weights 30:08 The Alpha stealth model 48:26 Model tier list begins 1:09:53 GPT-5.6 Luna 1:13:09 Opus and Sonnet 1:20:25 Gemini models 1:31:15 DeepSeek and local models 1:59:58 Fable vs. Sol 2:28:46 Final rankings

Anthropic started watermarking their model's outputs, Dario posted on X, SpaceXAi is getting really good really fast, Meta is shipping again, and we won DEF CON 2026. Thank you PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools for sponsoring today's Episode! Check them out at: nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: - Spotify: nerdsnipe.link/spotify - Apple: nerdsnipe.link/apple - Elsewhere: nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: nerdsnipe.substack.com Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:56 Claude Watermarks 15:04 Meta + Muse 48:48 GLM-5.3 55:15 Qwen + DeepSeek 1:08:48 Grok 4.6 + Bot 1:20:15 Gavin vs Dario 1:43:44 DEFCON 2:15:35 Viewer Q&A

Theo and Ben break down why Opus 5 feels like GPT-5.5 crossed with Fable rather than GPT-5.6 crossed with Fable, what Fable found when it audited an Opus thread line by line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/

This week Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live, and GPT 5.6 all dropped. ⁠Theo⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Ben⁠⁠ break down which models you should care about, how OpenAI fumbled the Codex to ChatGPT app transition, the abysmal usage numbers for 5.6, and the latest drama surrounding OpenAI and Sam Altman. Plus, how many satellites would it take to trap humanity on Earth, and how many data centers to heat up the ocean? Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Composio & WorkOs. https://nerdsnipe.link/composiohttps://nerdsnipe.link/workos Sources available on Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/

We've spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI's 5.6 Sol model to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. Also, we breakdown why we both moved our agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs Claude Code subagent gap that's now bigger than the model gap itself. Thanks to this episode's sponsors Clerk and General Translation: Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerkGeneral Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Sources Available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/

Fable was supposed to give us 14 days and instead we got 3 before the export ban. Now it's back at half the rate limits. Also, we break down why AI-generated Claude Code skills fall apart, what actually triggers Fable-to-Opus rerouting, the Mythos export-control timeline, and whether GLM 5.2 can really touch Sonnet 5. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode! PostHog, all in one suite of product tools: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/

A new "government-approved rollout" for GPT-5.6 is coming, and it's got us wondering: are we entering the next dark age of AI model access? Additionally, we break down the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier model access looks like in a Fable/Mythos-tier world. Thank you to Composio for sponsoring this episode! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio Sources Available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/

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/

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

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