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Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Theo and Ben 10 episodes Latest Jun 3, 2026

A dev podcast hosted by Theo and Ben, who claim to be real developers. They discuss tech topics with a humorous and nerdy slant.

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Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX? Jun 10, 2026 01:35:15 Cloudflare buys Void0, Google buying up compute from xAI, and Claude seems to be getting more anxious so we're here to break down everything this week on another episode of Nerd Snipe! Thank you to Composio for sponsoring today's episode! Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composioSources:https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047https://x.com/EdLudlow/status
We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8 Jun 3, 2026 01:15:07 Opus 4.8 + a ton of new stuff in Claude Code dropped this week, and we actually kinda like it. There's also a new benchmark that's actually good, and we have a lot of thoughts about the future of these AI labs...Thank you PostHog and Clerk for sponsoring! PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthogClerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerkSOURCEShttps://www.anthrop
Google is Not a Serious Company May 28, 2026 01:22:46 Not only did Google accidentally ban Railway's account, but their new flagship model Gemini 3.5 Flash is absurdly bad. Oh and apparently Theo's building his own cloud...Thank you Macroscope and GT for sponsoring today's episode! Macroscope: ⁠nerdsnipe.link/macroscopeGeneral Translation: nerdsnipe.link/gtSOURCES⁠https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823⁠⁠https://x.com/JustJake/statu
How the OpenClaw creator uses $1.3 million of tokens May 20, 2026 01:09:19 Peter, the creator of openclaw is apparently going through $1,300,000 worth of tokens every month. Seems like we're not using nearly enough tokens. Oh and the security psychosis is getting worse. (Anthropic is being bad again too)Thank you to today's sponsors!- AgentMail, email inboxes for your agents: nerdsnipe.link/agentmail- Clerk, the best experience for auth, orgs, billing, and more: nerdsnip
Anthropic solved their compute problem by buying it from Elon? May 14, 2026 01:36:23 Anthropic seems to have finally solved their compute problems (kinda) by buying it from Elon, the security problem is getting so much worse, and apparently Bun's getting re-written in rust?Thank you to PostHog and Composio for sponsoring today's episode! - PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog- Composio, connect your agents to everything: nerdsnipe.link/composioSou
Theo Almost Lost $1 Million May 6, 2026 01:47:03 This week Theo nearly lost a million dollars and Ben got AI psychosis (from gstack)...Thank you to Coderabbit and Clerk for sponsoring today's episode! - Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit- Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerkSources/references: - https://x.com/theo/status/2014863266888233193- https://x.com/theo/status/20503058138946482
We need to talk about OpenAI May 1, 2026 01:35:56 OpenAI and Microsoft are breaking up, Sam's drunk posting, Anthropic is being stupid again, and we still disagree about GPT-5.5Thanks to this episode's sponsors: - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk- Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit- PlanetScale, the fastest and most scalable cloud databases: https://nerdsnip
We've been testing GPT-5.5 for a few weeks now... Apr 23, 2026 01:44:10 Anthropic month is finally over. We've got a ton to talk about: GPT-5.5 pre-release impressions, the Vercel hack, Cursor + xAI, Qwen models, Kimi k2.6, and so much more...Thank you to today's Sponsors!Depot, truly modern CI: nerdsnipe.link/depotCoderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: nerdsnipe.link/coderabbitClerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerkTIMESTAMPS00:00:
Theo gets conspiratorial about Anthropic Apr 22, 2026 01:04:25 Really hope that Anthropic month is almost over. But at least for now we gotta talk about Opus 4.7, Claude Design, and much much more...Thank you to this episode's sponsor Clerk! The best DX in auth by a mile: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerkOur RSS feed: https://nerdsnipe.link/rssFollow on spotify and everywhere else you get your podcasts! https://nerdsnipe.link/podTIMESTAMPS00:00:00 Anthropic Again.
We need to talk about gstack Apr 18, 2026 01:01:06 Diving into Mythos, Claude reasoning, post-AI Uncle Bob, GStack, Thank you to today's sponsors!CoderabbitThe AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit⁠ClerkThe auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk00:00:00 - Welcome to the TBPNN Show00:02:50 - Anthropic's Mythos model00:11:14 - Anthropic nerfed Claude
Anthropic Can't Stop Making Mistakes Apr 9, 2026 01:21:47 Talking about everything that went wrong with Anthropic last week (source code leak, rate limits, banning openclaw, and so much more) + our new favorite coding agent Pi.Thank you to this episode's sponsors!CoderabbitThe AI code reviewer that deeply understands your codebase: https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbitClerkThe auth platform we always either use, or regret not using: https://nerdsnipe.lin

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