Is Claude Opus 4.7 Mythos Distilled, Running Qwen 3.6 Locally, and the AI-On-AI Arena

Artificial Developer Intelligence · Apr 24, 2026 · 1h 2m · transcript

Is Claude Opus 4.7 really burning tokens? Is open source dead after mythos? Co-hosts Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky — with recurring guest Rahul Yadav — ran the experiments this week on ADI Pod #22 (April 21, 2026).

This episode covers Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 release (the "mythos slice"), Alibaba's open-source Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, cal.com going closed source for security reasons, and a HIPAA-violating vibe-coded patient portal that is, in Dan's words, the bullshit future already here.

In this episode

▸ **Claude Opus 4.7 review** — the new mythos-derived tokenizer (3× bloat on plain English)…