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 44 Oct 23, 2026How Anthropic Works in 2026 & the Most Important Mech Interp Paper of the Year
At Anthropic, interactive AI agent hours now outnumber employee hours six to one, and 19 to one in research. With Rahul out, Shimin and Dan read Anthropic's own employment data and Nick Cammarata's case that neural networks are already clean, plus Meta's Muse Spark Open, a bugged OpenAI conference room, the Parsimony benchmark, and CoreWeave's bond scare, with the bubble clock moving to 4:00.
Ep 43 Oct 16, 2026OpenAI Fires Its Safety Researchers, Agentic Primitives & More Code, Not More Software
Across 718 firms, AI coding agents raised lines of code 30% and pull requests 23%, while resolved issues rose about 3% and review time rose 49%. The full trio covers OpenAI firing three safety researchers, Nadella and Zuckerberg on pacing the frontier, Charlie Guo's agentic primitives, a Gemini 4 Argon model review, Rahul's live voice clone of Dan, and Bain's $6 trillion question, with the bubble clock holding at 4:15.
Ep 42 Oct 9, 2026AI Safety's Conflict of Interest, Gemini 4 Argon, the Brain Sandwich & Agent Trading
The same broken folding bike sold for $65 when Anthropic's Opus agent represented the seller and $38 when Haiku did, and participants rated both kinds of deal equally fair. The full trio covers Gemini 4 Argon and its price cut, Meta booking data centers as R&D, the brain sandwich, AI safety's conflict of interest, Scott Aaronson's age of wonders and terrors, Glyph's serious AI product, Anthropic's agent-trading experiments, and an IPO prospectus that leaves the bubble clock at 4:15.
Ep 41 Oct 2, 2026Meta Muse's 0-Day, DHH's Rails World Keynote, GPT-6 Astra & the LLMentalist Effect
A military chatbot flagged a passing ship as Chinese and possibly nuclear; the boarding was called off at the last minute. The full trio returns from a two-week break for Meta Muse's endpoint-swapping 0-day, DHH's "pencils down" Rails World keynote, a news lightning round, a GPT-6 Astra review and its looped-transformer monitorability worry, the plunging price of thought, telling agents the why, the LLMentalist effect, and a bubble clock that holds at 4:15.
Ep 40 Sep 11, 2026The Psychology of Software Teams with Dr. Cat Hicks
Engineering teams that lowered production pressure to make space for learning ended up roughly 18 months ahead of everyone else. No news, no clock: Shimin and Dan sit down with Dr. Cat Hicks — psychologist for the humans in tech, principal scientist at Catharsis, and author of The Psychology of Software Teams — on brains-in-jars organizations, the 10x engineer myth, the learning-opportunities skill, the fluency illusion, and what a healthy AI-native team actually looks like.