AI Tools Daily

Mistral Large 4 hits Hugging Face as a trillion-parameter open-weight model, and we explain how mixture-of-experts lets it run on a fraction of its parameters per token. Also: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, a weight-editing experiment on Qwen, a pretraining-poisoning backdoor paper for agent builders, and Momentic's MCP-connected AI QA tool. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code 2.1.314 and 2.1.316 land, with Opus 4.8 fast mode set for removal on November 30. We also cover why Postgres 19 is late (LLM-found bugs), a 12-framework benchmark of what Claude Code costs per stack, and quick hits on Codex, Gemini CLI and OmniDiff. The episode teaches prompt caching and why switching modes mid-session costs more.

Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Cisco Talos details VOLTA, an infostealer that sends stolen data to an LLM to rank victims, and a researcher's chained-bug ChatGPT account takeover via a shared link. We cover Claude Code 2.1.311 and 2.1.312, plus Prospero, a lean C++ coding harness. Concepts taught: temperature, postMessage, and what an agent harness is. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

A modified Claude Code extension (v2.1.313) was live in Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours; we cover how to check and clean up. We also break down OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra and Google's Gemini 4 Carbon pricing, teaching how input, output and cached tokens are billed, plus 1Password for Agents and quick hits from Amp, OpenCode and Factory Droid. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Claude Code 2.1.314 adds a write lock outside working directories, IdP-group gateway routing, and idle compaction of long conversations. We teach what context compaction is and why an expired prompt cache matters, plus Antigravity CLI's 70% streaming cut, OpenCode's /goal command, and Codex CLI 0.166.

Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

VS Code 1.144 lets Copilot agents run in the cloud while your machine sleeps and route across models via Fusion. We teach how model routing works (single, cascade and critique patterns), plus Antigravity CLI image paste over SSH and Amp on Android.

Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

OpenCode 2.2 adds plugins that tweak the prompt without breaking the cache, and we explain what a prompt cache is. Plus Codex CLI turns on memory v2 and adds a Vertex AI provider, Gemini CLI 0.66 hardens Git and MCP OAuth, and Claude Code 2.1.312 protects large files from overwrites. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic donates the Agent Skills standard to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives at roughly 75% lower cost, Amp adds self-hosted orbs, Replit's agent investigates production alerts, and Claude Code ships fresh fixes. We also explain what a token is and why prompt size changes your bill. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

AWS open-sources Infinity, which suspends agents while they wait on tools, Google previews Agent Compute Engine microVMs for agents, and Recursive's Flint brings a 40B MoE coder to laptops. We also cover Cursor's computer-use agents and the Node2Shell patch. This episode teaches how agent state can be saved and resumed, and why microVMs isolate better than containers. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.

Anthropic donates the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation, and Claude Code 2.1.307 adds a safety telemetry event and restricts MCP retries to idempotent tools. Today's lessons: how a context window works and why progressive disclosure keeps big skill libraries cheap, plus what "idempotent" means for agent tools. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.