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Artificial Developer Intelligence
Three engineer friends argue about AI so you don't have to. Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav are working developers who've been watching AI transform their profession in real time, and they got opinions on the robot takeover. Every week the three get together to riff on the latest AI news, geek out over research papers, roast each other's tool choices, and occasionally have an existential crisis about whether the craft is dying or just getting weird. What you're signing up for: - AI…
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- Artificial Developer Intelligence
One Year of Bad Takes, LLMs That Write Neural Network Weights & Inside an AI Benchmark
GPT-6 Astra read a 0.8B model's weights, found the looping bug, and edited 0.016% of them. MATH-500 went from 7.9% to 48.1%. Also: ADI Pod turns one, so Claude…
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Anthropic's S-1, Amazon's AI Memo to Engineers, De-Slopped Qwen & Claude Auto-Evals
Anthropic's S-1 shows an 85% gross margin, 900% net revenue retention, and an $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of 2026. Also: Amazon's memo on…
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How Anthropic Works in 2026 & the Most Important Mech Interp Paper of the Year
At Anthropic, AI agent hours now outnumber employee hours six to one. In research teams it's 19 to one. The bottleneck is human attention. Shimin calls Nick…
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OpenAI Fires Its Safety Researchers, Agentic Primitives & More Code, Not More Software
Across 718 firms, AI coding agents raised lines of code 30% and PRs 23%. Resolved issues rose about 3%. Code review is the bottleneck. Gemini 4 Argon turns a…
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AI Safety's Conflict of Interest, Gemini 4 Argon, the Brain Sandwich & Agent Trading
Same broken folding bike, same buyer. Anthropic's Opus agent sold it for $65. A Haiku agent got $38. Its owner didn't notice. Gemini 4 Argon tops most of…
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Meta Muse's 0-Day, DHH's Rails World Keynote, GPT-6 Astra & the LLMentalist Effect | ADI Pod #41
A military chatbot flagged a passing ship as Chinese and possibly nuclear. It wasn't. The boarding was called off at the last minute. Back from a two-week…
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The Psychology of Software Teams with Dr. Cat Hicks
Engineering teams that lowered production pressure to make space for learning ended up roughly 18 months ahead of everyone else. This week is different: no…
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Meta's AI Backfires, GLM 5.3 Flash, OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip & the End of Programming
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…
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AI Homework Atrophy, GitHub Commits Double, Nick Muy Sit-Down & AI Sandbagging
We gave four AI models the same question from three user profiles. All four gave worse answers to the user they judged unable to check them. This week: a…
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Claude Watermarks, Zuck's Superintelligence Essay, Zed's ZDB & Multi-Agent Turf Wars
Anthropic put AI agents on one computer with conflicting goals. They wrote self-replicating malware and killed each other's processes. This week: Claude starts…
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Pacing the Frontier, Anthropic Models Go Rogue, Why Software Factories Fail & Math in the Age of AI
"I'm happy to be a flesh robot." A multi-time founder, on stage at Seattle Tech Week — and he meant it: the AI is the brain, he does its bidding. This week: a…
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Kimi K3 & Qwen 3.8, OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face, Harness Handbook & Claude's Values
OpenAI's own security models found a path out of their evaluation environment, reached the open internet, and compromised Hugging Face while trying to obtain…
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Apple Sues OpenAI, Boko Haram's Frontier AI Usage, Should You Read AI Generated Code & Global Workspace in LLMs
An Apple VP left for OpenAI, then texted an old coworker: "LOL I can't believe they let me get away with this." Apple is now suing. This week: the first…
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GPT-5.6 Sol, the State of AI, Know Your Unknowns With Agents & the Permanent Underclass
Ford quietly rehired the "grey beard" engineers it had automated away — the AI running its QA kept failing. The same week, the share of CEOs who expect AI to…
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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…
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Grok Buys Cursor, MidJourney Goes Hardware, Hermes Agent & Evaluation-Driven Development
MidJourney — the AI image company — just quit image generation to build 50,000 spas that scan your body slice by slice. Then the week got weirder. Co-hosts…
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Fable 5 Ban, Meta's AI Gulag, Elias Thorne & What is Loop Engineering?
Three days after Fable 5 launched, the US government banned it — for every foreign national on Earth, including Anthropic's own employees. Then it got weirder…
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Claude Fable 5 is Here! Plus: Meta AI Hack, LLMs as Black Boxes, and Future of Agents
"I think this is the first time ever where the user has no control over which model you're actually using." — Shimin on Fable 5's safety fallback, which…
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Claude Opus 4.8, Undocumented Claude Code Features, Eval Harness for AI Skills, Pope on AI
"Every time you vibe code, you're gonna spend compute to skip the bottleneck of code review." — Shimin's cold open on ep-28. Trading compute for human labor…
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OpenAI Beats Musk, Gemini 3.5 Flash & AI Burnout Mitigation
"Sam Altman won in court against Elon Musk. But, really, we all lost." That's the New Yorker headline Dan brought to ep-27 — and the question under it is…
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LLM Neuralanatomy with David Noel Ng, Forward Deployed Everybody, Preferences Revealed by AI
This week on ADI Pod: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines ships its first product (interaction models), Meta employees fight the mouse-tracking program with…
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Multi-Agent Patterns for 2026, Anthropic on Colossus, Brockman's Tesla Painting
Anthropic finally fixed the compute crunch — by partnering with the one company OpenAI is currently being sued by. Plus Brockman's deposition journal drops, we…
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OpenAI's Goblin Problem, 10 Lessons When Code Is Cheap, AI Addiction Loop
Why does the leaked Codex CLI system prompt explicitly tell GPT-5.5 to never mention goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, or pigeons? Why is OpenAI now…
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Why Models Over-Edit Your Code, Meta Keystroke Surveillance, Interviewing Engineers in the AI Age
Is GPT-5.5 finally a 4.7-tier model? Did DeepSeek V4 just close the gap with Anthropic? And what does it mean that a senior ML engineer says he can't out-code…
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Is Claude Opus 4.7 Mythos Distilled, Running Qwen 3.6 Locally, and the AI-On-AI Arena
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…
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Anthropic Mythos & Project Glasswing, Recursive Improving Agents, and Your Parallel Agent Limit
Shimin and Dan cover Minimax's M2.7 model — the first public experimental result in recursive self-improvement (RSI) — and unpack Anthropic's shock…
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Ep 20: Claude Code Source Leak, Emotion Concepts in LLMs, and Surprising Facts AIs Know About Us.
This week Rahul, Shimin, and Dan returns after a two-week break to cover the leaked Claude Code CLI source code, new model releases (Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4)…
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Ep 19: Thinking Fast Slow and Artificial, Meta's Trouble with Rogue Agents, and FOMO in the Age of AI
This week, Rahul, Shimin, and Dan covers Claude Code's new channels and scheduling features, a Meta security incident caused by AI-generated advice…
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Ep 18: 8 Levels of AI Engineering, Meta AI Delays, and LLM Neuroanatomy
This week, Dan, Shimin & Rahul covers Meta's struggles with its delayed "Avocado" AI model and potential Gemini licensing, NVIDIA's enterprise-ready NemoClaw…
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Ep 17: Slop Garbage Collection, Cleanroom Rewrites, and Will Claude Ruin our Teams?
In this episode, Dan and Shimin follow-up on the Anthropic Pentagon drama (supply chain risk designation, lawsuit, and big tech backing Anthropic), open-source…
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Pentagon Anthropic Drama, Verified Spec-Driven Development, and Interview with Martin Alderson!
In this episode, Dan, Shimin and Rahul cover the Pentagon drama between Anthropic/OpenAI and the Department of Defense over AI usage red lines, introduces…
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Convincing AI the Earth is Flat, Inference at 17k tokens/sec, and an Agile Manifesto for the Agentic Age?
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…
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Crabby Rathbun, Model Councils & Why You Want More Tech Debt
This episode covers the Krabby Rathbun AI bot drama (automated PRs, fabricated hit piece, Ars Technica retraction), safety team shakeups at OpenAI and…
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Episode 13: Pi Coding Agent, Dark Factories & the Furniture Makers of Carolina
This episode covers the simultaneous release of Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT Codex 5.3, a deep dive into the Pi coding agent framework and why Shimin prefers it…
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Episode 12: The OpenClaw Saga, How AI Affects Programming Skills, and How Vibe Coding is Addictive like Gambling
In this episode, Dan and Shimin discuss the evolving landscape of AI programming, focusing on Anthropic's AI Constitution, OpenAI's new product Prism, and the…
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Episode 11: AI Fluency Pyramid, Unrolling the Codex Agent Loop, and Claude Code's Secret Swarm Mode
In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, Shimin, Dan and Rahul discuss the evolving landscape of AI in programming and business. They explore…
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Episode 10: There's a New Sherif in the Gas Town of AI Software Development
The podcast "Artificial Developer Intelligence" features hosts Shimin Zhang and co-host Dan Lasky discuss the evolving landscape of AI in programming, recent…
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Episode 9: Chinese Models 7 Months Behind US Labs, Token Efficient Languages, and LLM Problems Observed in Humans
The podcast "Artificial Developer Intelligence" features hosts Shimin Zhang and co-host Dan Lasky discuss the evolving landscape of AI in programming, recent…
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Episode 8: AI Acquisitions, Everyone's a Staff Engineer Now, and Building a Technical Writing Agent
The podcast "Artificial Developer Intelligence" features hosts Shimin Zhang and guest co-host Rahul Yadav discussing the evolving landscape of AI in software…
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Episode 7: Project Vend Update, Hallucinating Neurons, and Year End Reflections
In this episode, Shimin and Dan explore the latest advancements in AI coding, including NVIDIA's new models, the implications of AI-generated code, and the…
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Episode 6: GPT 5.2, Claude Skills, and Hacker Hall of Fame
In this episode of "Artificial Developer Intelligence," hosts Shimin Zhang and Dan explore the latest advancements in AI, including the release of GPT 5.2 and…
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Episode 5: How Anthropic Engineers use AI, Spec Driven Development, and LLM Psychological Profiles
In this episode, Shimin and Dan explore the evolving landscape of AI in software engineering, discussing the implications of the Cloud Opus 4.5 sole document…
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Episode 4: Open AI Code Red, TPU vs GPU and More Autonomous Coding Agents
In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan discuss the evolving landscape of AI in software engineering, touching on topics…
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Claude Opus 4.5, Olmo 3, and a Paper on Diffusion + Auto Regression
In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan explore the latest advancements in AI models, including the release of Claude Opus…
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It's Gemini 3 Week! And How to Persuade an LLM to Call You a Jerk
In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan explore the latest developments in AI, including Google's Gemini 3 model and its…
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AI Benchmarks, Tech Radar, and Limits of Current LLM Architectures
In this episode of Artificial Developer Intelligence, hosts Shimin and Dan explore the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, discussing recent news, benchmarking…