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Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. A Sunday lineup that runs from a 2-bit quant of DeepSeek V4-Flash on a laptop, through a Java production hang most teams haven't met yet, into the most considered pushback I've read on the AI coding numbers we discussed yesterday. Plus Cloudflare on why MCP tool dumps don't scale, the Asahi team finding a VRR knob hiding in plain sight, and a quiet note from DHH about...

Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. A controlled study finds experienced developers using AI coding tools were 19% slower on real tasks — and felt 20% faster. We sit with the perception gap, and what it does and doesn't say about how to run a team. Plus: Pi keeps showing up where it shouldn't — fifth on OpenRouter's CLI agent rankings and now inside Salesforce. Susan Zhang on why stable training norms c...

Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. DeepSeek V4 ships hours after GPT-5.5, and the technical report tells a more interesting story than the benchmark bars. Susan Zhang reads the paper out loud: anticipatory routing, logit clamps, and a training run that kept catching fire at 33 trillion tokens. I walk through what the fragility actually means for anyone planning to finetune on top of it. On the OpenAI s...

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Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Anthropic's pricing experiment backfires as Claude Code nearly exits the $20 tier. Mozilla patches 271 Mythos-discovered vulnerabilities in Firefox. Sam Altman tweets drunk while Google ships silicon for the agent era. The Two Percent Test — Anthropic's pricing reversal and what it reveals about compute constraints Every Bug Discoverable — Mozilla's Mythos experiment...

Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Claude Code crosses the self-modification threshold while Anthropic can't decide if third parties can use their models. Kimi K2.6 brings Opus-level coding to open source at a fraction of the cost. Tim Cook hands Apple's CEO role to hardware chief John Ternus just as the AI battle intensifies. And the entire agent ecosystem runs on undocumented endpoints that could van...

Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Kimi K2.6 just matched GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro. Open-source models are no longer playing catch-up—they're setting the pace. Meanwhile, Atlassian joins the enterprise data grab, 44% of Deezer's daily uploads are AI-generated, and engineers are warning that agent architectures are repeating MS-DOS security mistakes. The open-source inflection point — Kimi K2.6 beats cl...

Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Today’s episode is about where the AI story feels real right now: not in grand claims about instant labor replacement, but in the places where systems meet the world and get weird. We dig into Vercel’s April 2026 security incident, Johann Rehberger’s latest Claude memory-hijack experiment, the ongoing fight over whether LLMs can really reason, the local-model push on...