Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Last week was...something. So this week, Theo & Ben are breaking down TypeScript in Rust, Claude and Codex workflows, the PHP Hacks (and Railway security incident and API key revocation), T3 Code guest threads, and our first impressions of Apple's folding phone!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Anthropic Layoffs & Weekly Recap

3:55 T3 Code vs Gemini Tokens

8:09 Codex vs Opus 5.5

15:49 Security Roundup

27:02 Java, Oracle & Android

31:12 PHP Exploits & Vigilante Fixes

38:17 Railway Hack & Revoked Keys

51:12 TypeScript to Rust

58:00 Death Loops & Evals

1:04:41 Gemini Fails & Codex Delays

1:11:49 T3 Code Guest Mode

1:14:51 Three Phones, One Duo

1:28:20 Foldables & App Support

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Theo & Ben are back this week to talk all about how Meta's Muse Wonder is here to impress and it seems like Google still can't make a frontier model! We're breaking it all down, including the random appearance of the Tesla Roadster!

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Timestamps:

0:00 Gemini Fanboys Intro

4:31 Gemini 4 Argon Benchmarks vs Reality

16:27 Google's Pricing and Falling Behind

20:30 Grok 4.7 vs Gemini 4

25:01 Google Book and Z Fold Android Pain

36:40 Music Piracy and Computer Use

49:18 Anthropic's Growth and Vibe Coding

59:19 Can AI Replace Human Taste

1:28:17 DeepSeek 1017 and Open Weights

1:34:58 Roadster Flying Car and Wrap Bet

1:51:30 Hunting Tedious Work with Agents

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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!

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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!

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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