Anthropic Accidentally Open-Sourced Claude Code. Here's What We Found

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   8 May 2026 · 19 min

   A Cursor Agent Wiped a Prod DB in 10 Seconds. Let's Talk About That.

   A Cursor AI agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database on April 25th — in under 10 seconds. This week Alex and Sam dig into the AI agent credential crisis, Anthropic's wild SpaceX/xAI compute deal, Mozilla using Claude to find hundreds of Firefox vulnerabilities, and whether OpenAI Codex is actually closing the gap on Claude Code. If you've ever given an agent database access, listen before your next deploy.

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   2 May 2026 · 17 min

   Claude Security Just Went Public — Is Your Codebase Already Exposed?

   Anthropic's Claude Security tool just dropped out of closed preview and it will scan your entire codebase for vulnerabilities — and the results might be uncomfortable. This week we also dig into Cursor's $60 billion bet on being the "harness" rather than the model, why AI agents are literally forcing developers to keep their laptops open, and the Zig project's nuclear take on AI contributions. If you write code with AI help, this episode is required listening.

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   24 Apr 2026 · 22 min

   Claude Code Was Broken for Two Months (And Nobody Told Us)

   Turns out the Claude Code quality complaints weren't in your head — three separate bugs in the harness quietly degraded your results for two months, and Anthropic just confirmed it. This week: the $100/month pricing scare that wasn't, Claude Mythos fixing 271 Firefox vulnerabilities, the SpaceX-Cursor deal that changes the competitive landscape, and why the Claude Code creator says your cloud-native workflow is probably wrong. Essential listening before your next session.

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   17 Apr 2026 · 21 min

   Claude Opus 4.7 Dropped — And a Local Model Drew the Better Pelican

   Claude Opus 4.7 is here with upgraded vision, memory, and instruction-following — but Simon Willison's pelican benchmark just handed the win to a local Alibaba model running on a laptop. We dig into what that actually means, plus Anthropic's new identity verification layer, Amazon's MCP bet, and whether "personal software" is about to change who gets to be a developer. Your commute just got more interesting.

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   10 Apr 2026 · 12 min

   Max Effort Thinking Was Broken the Whole Time — Here's the Fix

   A Reddit user just proved that Claude Code's "max effort" thinking mode has been silently failing since v2.0.64 — and most of us never noticed. This week: the bug, the fix, and what it says about trusting your tools. Plus, Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents, OpenAI goes to $100/month to poach Claude Code users, and the AI-generated PR crisis that's about to hit enterprise teams hard. Required listening before you open your terminal Monday morning.

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   30 Mar 2026 · 19 min

   Copilot Put an Ad in My PR and Other Reasons to Switch

   GitHub Copilot literally edited an advertisement into a developer's pull request this week — and that's somehow not even the most alarming Copilot story. We dig into GitHub's new policy to train on your code, the cache bugs silently inflating Claude Code API bills by 10-20x, and Boris Cherny's 15 hidden Claude Code features. This one's got receipts.

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   20 Mar 2026 · 21 min

   The Vibe Coding Backlash Is Here — And It Has a Point

   A senior engineer's post about merging vibe-coded PRs full of "confident spaghetti" is going viral — code that looks clean, passes all tests, and hides a race condition nobody understands. This week Alex and Sam dig into whether the backlash is fair, what it actually exposes about code review culture, and why the ratio of writing-to-understanding cost just inverted. Plus: Claude Code can now spawn parallel subagents natively, MCP servers just crossed 800 and counting, and a 7-year-old production bug got fixed in 90 minutes.

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   13 Mar 2026 · 24 min

   An AI Agent Just Deleted 25,000 Documents. Here's Exactly How It Happened.

   A developer lost 25,000 documents in a single AI agent session — and wrote up exactly how it happened. This week Alex and Sam dig into the horror story, what safeguards actually work, and why "I'll just be careful" isn't a strategy. Plus: Shopify's CEO is submitting his own performance PRs using Claude, Simon Willison's case that AI *should* raise code quality (not tank it), and the Claude Code gateway daemon you probably want running right now.

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   6 Mar 2026 · 22 min

   Claude Code's Auto Mode Changes Everything (And One Dev Quit Coding)

   This week: Anthropic announces Auto Mode to kill permission fatigue, GPT-5.4 drops in Cursor, and a 30-year veteran explains why he hasn't written code in six months. Plus: why your AI-generated tests are lying to you, and our battle-tested prompt for sending Claude on a bug-hunting crusade. Essential listening for anyone shipping with AI.