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GLM 5.2 Undercuts Opus, Self-Rewriting Harness, AI Out-Persuades Humans & Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
AI now out-argues expert human debaters, even coaching doesn't save them. Cap its word count though, and the entire edge drops to zero.
This week: GLM 5.2 undercuts Opus, Xiaomi's self-rewriting harness, OpenAI's "jalapeno" chip, prompt injection as role confusion, and the clock ticking to 4:45.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.
▸ GLM 5.2 — Z.ai's open-weight 750B MoE: Sonnet-to-Opus quality at ~1/3 the cost (~$5 vs $20 a build). Semgrep even had it beating raw Claude Code on security.
▸ Engineering jobs — SignalFire: software engineering was 2025's most resilient role (~55% of…
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