Convincing AI the Earth is Flat, Inference at 17k tokens/sec, and an Agile Manifesto for the Agentic Age?

Artificial Developer Intelligence · Feb 27, 2026 · 1h 4m · transcript

This episode covers Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro model releases, Taalas Labs FPGA-based 17K tokens/sec hardware, the Meta-AMD chip partnership, Steven Sinofsky's argument against "software is dead," a deep dive into the ThoughtWorks Future of Software Engineering retreat findings (from Agile Manifesto signers), Chris Roth's elite AI engineering culture article, a Vibe & Tell segment testing agent sycophancy across three models, and AI bubble economics.

Takeaways

Sonnet 4.6: Opus-level reasoning at Sonnet pricing; 72.5 on OS World (vs 61.4 for Sonnet 4.5); outperforms Opus 4.6 on agentic…