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 34 Jul 17, 2026Apple Sues OpenAI, Boko Haram's Frontier AI, State of CLI Coding Agents & Global Workspace in LLMs
An Apple VP left for OpenAI, then texted an old coworker: 'LOL I can't believe they let me get away with this' — Apple is now suing. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul work through the trade-secret suit and the Altman–Musk 'scammer' spat, the first on-the-ground study of a terrorist group using frontier AI, a Claude Code hook that nudges better technique every three hours, arcbjorn's state of CLI coding agents in mid-2026 (and the Pi-based On-My-Pi), Databricks benchmarking coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase — where the same model scores higher on Pi than on Claude Code — Antirez on controlling the ideas instead of reviewing every generated line, and a deep dive on the J space: the global workspace inside LLMs that holds 25 active concepts to a human's 3–4.
Ep 33 Jul 10, 2026GPT-5.6 Sol, Meta's Video Game Gulags, Know Your Unknowns & the Permanent Underclass
Ford quietly rehired the 'grey beard' engineers it had automated away after its AI-run QA kept failing — the same week an EY survey found the share of CEOs expecting AI to cut headcount had fallen from 46% to 20%. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul work through OpenAI's three-flavor GPT-5.6 Sol preview and China's move to wall off its own models, Meta's 'AI gulag' shipping bite-sized video games, the 11 agent techniques Thariq pulled out of the Fable 5 release video, Fernando Borretti on why no one escapes the 'permanent underclass,' an Okane read on AI saving ~3% of your hours while almost none reaches your paycheck, Exponential View's state-of-the-AI-economy deep dive (a new billion in revenue every two days), a SonarSource study on whether clean code even matters to coding agents, and a Two Minutes to Midnight that holds the clock at 4:45.
Ep 32 Jul 3, 2026GLM 5.2 Undercuts Opus, Self-Rewriting Harness, AI Out-Persuades Humans & Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
AI now out-argues expert human debaters — coaching the humans doesn't close the gap — but cap the AI's word count and the entire edge drops to 0.0 percentage points. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul work through Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.2 doing an Opus-grade build at a third the cost, Xiaomi's Harness X rewriting its own scaffolding mid-task, OpenAI and Broadcom's 'jalapeno' inference chip read from a wafer photo, prompt injection reframed as role confusion (the green-shirt jailbreak), Bloomberg on the AI anxiety gripping Silicon Valley, Dan's rant on tokens-per-PR as the new lines-of-code fallacy, and a Two Minutes to Midnight that moves the clock to 4:45.
Ep 31 Jun 26, 2026Grok Buys Cursor, MidJourney Goes Hardware, Hermes Agent & Evaluation-Driven Development
MidJourney quit image generation to license micro-ultrasound chips and build 50,000 body-scan spas — a billion scans a month — and that wasn't even the strangest thing this week. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul open on SpaceX buying Cursor for $60B (Shimin's read: the first real sign of AI-tool consolidation), then work through Nous Research's plugin-maximalist Hermes Agent, a Nature roundup showing physician and engineer skills decaying the moment the AI is taken away, why Claude Code feels like a video game you can't put down, Evaluation-Driven Development that gates your PR on an offline eval pipeline instead of unit tests, and a Two Minutes to Midnight where ChatGPT slips under 50% share and Ed Zitron walks OpenAI's $38.5B 2025 loss. Clock moved up to 5:00.
Ep 30 Jun 19, 2026Fable 5 Ban, Meta's AI Gulag, Elias Thorne & What is Loop Engineering?
Three days after Fable 5 launched, a US national-security export order banned it for every foreign national on Earth — Anthropic's own employees included — and access was cut in 90 minutes. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul trace the fallout, then dig into Meta's applied-AI 'gulag,' the Elias Thorne dataset virus haunting every frontier model, why AI's speed doesn't move the 2%-a-year economy, Addy Osmani's loop engineering, a local DeepSeek 4 Flash demo, and a paper arguing AI shatters the Dunning-Kruger curve. Clock back to 5:30.