Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Why Pacing AI Won't Stop the Apocalypse, Apple Ruins UI/UX with the IPhone Duo, and How Unlimited Tokens Changes Basically Nothing

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

Anthropic's Answer to Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash Killed Benchmarks, and Muse Spark 1.3's Pretty Good

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 th

We've Been Using GPT-6 Astra for a Few Weeks, Here's What We Think...

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

Ox Alpha Revealed, OpenAI's Latest Pricing Updates, and Our Coding Model Tier List

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" wh

Anthropic Doesn't Think You Can Be Trusted, China is closing the gap, SpaceXAI Leaps Ahead, and DEF CON

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. T

Opus 5 Releases, China Catches Up, and the OpenAI Model Sandbox Escape

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 l

5 different models dropped last week & the GPT-5.6 usage limits are brutal

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

We Tested GPT 5.6 Sol Early

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,

Fable Is Back...kinda?

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

GPT-5.6 is here! And none of us can use it.

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 th

The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5...

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 failu

Our impressions of Claude Fable/Mythos (we filmed this before the ban)

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, a

Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX?

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

We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8

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 tho

Google is Not a Serious Company

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...

How the OpenClaw creator uses $1.3 million of tokens

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 ps

Anthropic solved their compute problem by buying it from Elon?

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

Theo Almost Lost $1 Million

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,

We need to talk about OpenAI

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,

We've been testing GPT-5.5 for a few weeks now...

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..