Meta's AI Backfires, GLM 5.3 Flash, OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip & the End of Programming

Artificial Developer Intelligence · Sep 4, 2026 · 50m · transcript

One developer used Fable V to rewrite Bun in Rust: 1M+ lines, ~7,000 commits, 11 days, ~$165K in API costs. It now underpins Claude Code.

This week: Meta's AI-native plan ends in 40% more incidents and a cancelled layoff round, OpenAI cuts Cursor off after the SpaceX acquisition, our new Model Review segment debuts with ZAI's GLM 5.3 Flash, OpenAI's Jalapeño chip posts absurd tokens-per-kilowatt numbers, and the AI bubble clock moves backward for the first time in a month.

Hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav — back from the Galápagos, where everyone talks in geological time.

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