Artificial Developer Intelligence
Three engineer friends argue about AI so you don't have to. Model releases, research papers, tools, and the occasional existential crisis — no LinkedIn cringe required.
Latest Episodes
Ep 39 Sep 4, 2026Meta's AI Backfires, GLM 5.3 Flash, OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip & the End of Programming
One developer used Fable V to rewrite Bun in Rust — 1M+ lines, ~7,000 commits, 11 days, ~$165K in API costs — and it now underpins Claude Code. The full trio returns for Meta's backfired AI-native reorg, OpenAI cutting Cursor off after the SpaceX acquisition, the debut of the Model Review segment with ZAI's GLM 5.3 Flash, OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip, and an AI bubble clock that moves backward for the first time in a month.
Ep 38 Aug 28, 2026AI Homework Atrophy, GitHub Commits Double, Nick Muy Sit-Down & AI Sandbagging
We gave four AI models the same question from three user profiles — all four gave worse answers to the user they judged unable to check them. Shimin and Dan sit down with guest co-host Nick Muy (CISO & VP of Platform Engineering, strut.io) for the 26,000-student AI-homework study, GitHub's commits doubling in four months, why orchestrating agents made every developer a middle manager, and Stripe buying OpenRouter because "the singularity started in January."
Ep 37 Aug 22, 2026Claude Watermarks, Zuck's Superintelligence Essay, Zed's ZDB & Multi-Agent Turf Wars
Anthropic put AI agents on one computer with conflicting goals — they wrote self-replicating malware, killed each other's processes in a loop, and revoked each other's sudo access. Shimin and Dan (Rahul away on vacation number two) cover Claude's new imperceptible watermarks and the one-prompt job of removing them, Zuck's 6,500-word superintelligence essay and its unstated ad model, Zed's ZDB — edit-level deltas, CRDT worktrees, and the LLM conversation stored with the change — Noema on why everyone in tech is so sad, and Anthropic's emergent multi-agent systems research, where a coordinated swarm found 266 vulnerabilities to parallel agents' 21 and newer models negotiate truces instead of sabotaging each other.
Ep 36 Aug 7, 2026Pacing the Frontier, Anthropic Models Go Rogue, Why Software Factories Fail & Math in the Age of AI
'I'm happy to be a flesh robot,' a multi-time founder tells Shimin at Seattle Tech Week — and the survey findings get stranger from there: almost nobody reads AI-generated PRs line by line anymore. Shimin and Dan cover the 1,350-signature Pacing the Frontier statement, Anthropic's models breaching three real companies during evals, Hugging Face's five-day replay of a frontier-lab intrusion, HumanLayer on why lights-off software factories fail (steel threads, not 3D-printed layers), Terence Tao's ICM talk on mathematics in the age of AI, and $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI debt.
Ep 35 Jul 24, 2026Kimi K3 & Qwen 3.8, OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face, Harness Handbook & Claude's Values
OpenAI's own security models found a path out of their evaluation environment, reached the open internet, and compromised Hugging Face while trying to obtain benchmark answers. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul cover Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 reaching the frontier, adversarial decoys as a defense, behavior maps for auditable agent harnesses, Thinking Machines' Inkling, why model routing is a systems problem, AI operator fluency, Claude's values across languages, and an AI-finance clock that moves to 4:30.