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Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

by Theo and Ben · English · Tech & Science

"The only dev podcast hosted by real devs" - Theo (not a real dev)

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 35 min
Latest: 12 Oct 2026
Language: English

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12 Oct 2026 · 2 hr 20 minNew

OpenAI's Dev Day Was a Disappointment & T3 Code's New Orchestrator Shines

With OpenAI’s new $500 plan lands alongside reduced subscription value, Theo and Ben explain why cheaper tokens aren’t making DevDay feel like a win, T3 Code's new Orchestrator setup, and more! Thanks to this episode's sponsor, Posthog: Posthog: https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 OpenAI Dev Day 07:31 T3 Code & Claude Code 20:51 Orchestration V2 30:03…

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S1 · E24 · 30 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 9 min
Opus 5.5 is the best model ever made, Grok 4.7 exists, GPT 6 Sol & Luna Impress, and why Jev isn't the solution to everything
Theo and Ben break down a packed week of AI releases, from Opus 5.5's insane release to Grok 4.7 falling short of the hype. They then dig into why post-training matters, where Jev, GPT-6 Sol, and Luna fit, and more! Thank you to General Translation & Paper for Sponsoring! General Translation: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Paper: https://nerdsnipe.link/paper Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Timestamps: 0:00…
S1 · E23 · 19 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 33 min
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 with our lives—along with Dario's latest blog post about pacing the frontier and how Apple's iPhone Duo could have ruined app development (if AI didn't exist). Thanks to this episode's sponsor, PostHog: PostHog: https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our…
S1 · E22 · 10 Sep 2026 · 2 hr 5 min
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 the latest with Codex usage limits, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, and the growing gap between model benchmarks and real coding workflows. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our…
S1 · E21 · 3 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 51 min
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 why its UI, stopping behavior, and agent reliability still create friction in real software workflows. From DEFCON puzzles to coding-agent PRs, we're comparing Astra with Fable and asking what a trustworthy OpenAI model should do next. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode! PostHog, all-in-one suite of product tools: https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify:…
S1 · E20 · 28 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 43 min
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" while ranking every current AI model on a tier list! What could go wrong? Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 3:30…
S1 · E19 · 20 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 18 min
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. Thank you PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools for sponsoring today's Episode! Check them out at: nerdsnipe.link/posthog Listen wherever you get your podcasts: - Spotify: nerdsnipe.link/spotify - Apple: nerdsnipe.link/apple - Elsewhere: nerdsnipe.link/listen Sources available on our Substack: nerdsnipe.substack.com Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:56 Claude Watermarks 15:04 Meta + Muse 48:48 GLM-5.3 55:15 Qwen + DeepSeek…
S1 · E18 · 28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 23 min
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 line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code. Thanks to this episode's sponsor, General Translation: General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/
S1 · E17 · 14 Jul 2026 · 2 hr 6 min
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 ChatGPT app transition, the abysmal usage numbers for 5.6, and the latest drama surrounding OpenAI and Sam Altman. Plus, how many satellites would it take to trap humanity on Earth, and how many data centers to heat up the ocean? Thank you to this episode's sponsors: Composio & WorkOs. https://nerdsnipe.link/composio https://nerdsnipe.link/workos Sources available on Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/
S1 · E16 · 9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 11 min
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, we breakdown why we both moved our agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs Claude Code subagent gap that's now bigger than the model gap itself. Thanks to this episode's sponsors Clerk and General Translation: Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk General Translation: https://nerdsnipe.link/gt Sources Available on our Substack:…
S1 · E15 · 8 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 17 min
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 skills fall apart, what actually triggers Fable-to-Opus rerouting, the Mythos export-control timeline, and whether GLM 5.2 can really touch Sonnet 5. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode! PostHog, all in one suite of product tools: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog Sources available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/
S1 · E14 · 30 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
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 the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier model access looks like in a Fable/Mythos-tier world. Thank you to Composio for sponsoring this episode! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio Sources Available on our Substack:…
S1 · E13 · 24 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 33 min
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 failure to communicate with Washington triggered the chaos. Plus: SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition, GLM 5.2 beating Google, the Codex trick for running 200 parallel agents, and why your next GPU will ship with a GPS tracker Thank you to Composio and WorkOS for sponsoring this episode! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio WorkOS, your enterprise ready solution: https://nerdsnipe.link/workos…
S1 · E12 · 15 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 17 min
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, and Clerk for sponsoring! Firecrawl, the best api for searching and crawling the web: nerdsnipe.link/firecrawl Depot, better CI in every way: nerdsnipe.link/depot Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk Sources https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2043177597434306699 https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code https://x.com/paradite_/status/2064585901351792887…
S1 · E11 · 10 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 35 min
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 of Nerd Snipe! Thank you to Composio for sponsoring today's episode! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio Sources: https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047 https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2062970770612199542 https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2063099050719846719 https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/…
S1 · E10 · 3 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
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 thoughts about the future of these AI labs... Thank you PostHog and Clerk for sponsoring! PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk SOURCES https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241 https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343 ⁠https://x.com/zoink/status/2060769829133721974…
S1 · E9 · 28 May 2026 · 1 hr 23 min
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... Thank you Macroscope and GT for sponsoring today's episode! Macroscope: ⁠ nerdsnipe.link/macroscope General Translation: nerdsnipe.link/gt SOURCES ⁠https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823⁠ ⁠https://x.com/JustJake/status/2056881510939283776⁠ ⁠https://x.com/KorduGG/status/2059141337895604626⁠ ⁠https://x.com/unboringtech/status/2059144145273491610⁠ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Gemini fallout 05:21 - Video gen 10:10 - Google Cloud…
S1 · E8 · 20 May 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
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 psychosis is getting worse. (Anthropic is being bad again too) Thank you to today's sponsors! - AgentMail, email inboxes for your agents: nerdsnipe.link/agentmail - Clerk, the best experience for auth, orgs, billing, and more: nerdsnipe.link/clerk TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 02:44 - Token Spend 06:47 - Token Future 12:12 - Secure Agents 22:50 - Anthropic Rules 31:35 - Security 39:36 - Token Tax 49:49 - AI Psychosis 59:47 - macOS…
S1 · E7 · 14 May 2026 · 1 hr 36 min
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 re-written in rust? Thank you to PostHog and Composio for sponsoring today's episode! - PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog - Composio, connect your agents to everything: nerdsnipe.link/composio Sources/references: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2052060691893227611…
S1 · E6 · 6 May 2026 · 1 hr 47 min
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, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠ nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk Sources/references: - https://x.com/theo/status/2014863266888233193 - https://x.com/theo/status/2050305813894648289 - https://x.com/theo/status/2050314995561611357 - https://x.com/sama/status/2050671161915371998 - https://x.com/davis7/status/2050718508372431026 -…
S1 · E5 · 1 May 2026 · 1 hr 36 min
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, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk - Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠ https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit - PlanetScale, the fastest and most scalable cloud databases: https://nerdsnipe.link/planetscale 00:00 Intro 04:05 Sam drunk tweets1 3:13 Anthropic billing woes 28:27 OpenAI divorce 42:34 GitHub can't stop dying 59:40 GPT-5.5 retrospective Sources/references:…
S1 · E4 · 23 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 44 min
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...Thank you to today's Sponsors! Depot, truly modern CI: nerdsnipe.link/depot Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk TIMESTAMPS00:00:00 - Intro, vacation chaos, and episode setup 00:01:34 - Vercel hack explained and security fallout 00:05:38 - Kimi K2.6 and the rise of strong open-weight models 00:14:29 - Cursor + xAI/SpaceX…
S1 · E3 · 22 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Theo gets conspiratorial about Anthropic
Really hope that Anthropic month is almost over. But at least for now we gotta talk about Opus 4.7, Claude Design, and much much more...Thank you to this episode's sponsor Clerk! The best DX in auth by a mile: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerkOur RSS feed: https://nerdsnipe.link/rssFollow on spotify and everywhere else you get your podcasts! https://nerdsnipe.link/podTIMESTAMPS00:00:00 Anthropic Again...00:07:30 T3 Code Banned?00:16:08 How Claude Caching Works00:24:00 Why Claude Seems Dumber00:38:03 The Conspiracies Begin...
S1 · E2 · 18 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
We need to talk about gstack
Diving into Mythos, Claude reasoning, post-AI Uncle Bob, GStack, Thank you to today's sponsors! Coderabbit The AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit⁠ Clerk The auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk 00:00:00 - Welcome to the TBPNN Show 00:02:50 - Anthropic's Mythos model 00:11:14 - Anthropic nerfed Claude's reasoning effort 00:14:20 - We should be scared of mythos 00:24:20 - Post-AI Uncle Bob 00:29:34 - Static Typing vs Dynamic Typing and Linting 00:36:23 - Claude Code Skills 00:40:49 -…
S1 · E1 · 9 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
Anthropic Can't Stop Making Mistakes
Talking about everything that went wrong with Anthropic last week (source code leak, rate limits, banning openclaw, and so much more) + our new favorite coding agent Pi. Thank you to this episode's sponsors! Coderabbit The AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit Clerk The auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk

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"The only dev podcast hosted by real devs" - Theo (not a real dev)

Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben is a English tech & science podcast from Theo and Ben. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Theo and Ben
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New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 35 min
Latest episode: 12 Oct 2026
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