Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

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 a...

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...

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 mode...

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 t...

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/firecrawl Depot, better CI in every way: nerdsnipe.link/depot Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk Sources https://...

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/2062525206158078047 https://x.com/EdLudlow/sta...

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/posthog Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk SOURCES https://www.ant...

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/macroscope General Translation: nerdsnipe.link/gt SOURCES ⁠https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823⁠ ⁠https://x.com/JustJake...

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: nerds...

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...

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/205030581389...

OpenAI and Microsoft are breaking up, Sam's drunk posting, Anthropic is being stupid again, and we still disagree about GPT-5.5Thanks to this episode's sponsors: - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk - Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠ https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit - PlanetScale, the fastest and most scalable cloud databases: https://nerds...

Anthropic month is finally over. We've got a ton to talk about: GPT-5.5 pre-release impressions, the Vercel hack, Cursor + xAI, Qwen models, Kimi k2.6, and so much more...Thank you to today's Sponsors! Depot, truly modern CI: nerdsnipe.link/depot Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk TIMESTAMPS00...

Really hope that Anthropic month is almost over. But at least for now we gotta talk about Opus 4.7, Claude Design, and much much more...Thank you to this episode's sponsor Clerk! The best DX in auth by a mile: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerkOur RSS feed: https://nerdsnipe.link/rssFollow on spotify and everywhere else you get your podcasts! https://nerdsnipe.link/podTIMESTAMPS00:00:00 Anthropic Again....

Diving into Mythos, Claude reasoning, post-AI Uncle Bob, GStack, Thank you to today's sponsors! Coderabbit The AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit⁠ Clerk The auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk 00:00:00 - Welcome to the TBPNN Show 00:02:50 - Anthropic's Mythos model 00:11:14 - Anthropic nerfed...

Talking about everything that went wrong with Anthropic last week (source code leak, rate limits, banning openclaw, and so much more) + our new favorite coding agent Pi. Thank you to this episode's sponsors! Coderabbit The AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk The auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: https://nerdsnip...