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Season 1, Episode 2 · Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

We need to talk about gstack

18 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

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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 -…

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Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Theo and Ben · Tech & Science · English

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