Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben
A dev podcast hosted by Theo and Ben, who claim to be real developers. They discuss tech topics with a humorous and nerdy slant.
Episodes
Anthropic Doesn't Think You Can Be Trusted, China is closing the gap, SpaceXAI Leaps Ahead, and DEF CON
Anthropic started watermarking their model's outputs, Dario posted on X, SpaceXAi is getting really good really fast, Meta is shipping again, and we won DEF CON 2026. Thank you PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools for sponsoring today's Episode! Check them out at: nerdsnipe.link/posthogListen wherever you get your podcasts: - Spotify: nerdsnipe.link/spotify- Apple: nerdsnipe.link
Opus 5 Releases, China Catches Up, and the OpenAI Model Sandbox Escape
Theo and Ben break down why Opus 5 feels like GPT-5.5 crossed with Fable rather than GPT-5.6 crossed with Fable, what Fable found when it audited an Opus thread line by line, where Opus still clearly wins (3D, animation, and Claude Code limits at half Fable's price with no 50% weekly cap), plus Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, the Hugging Face hack, Grok 4.5, Codex, and T3 Code.Thanks to this episode's s
5 different models dropped last week & the GPT-5.6 usage limits are brutal
This week Grok 4.5, Muse Spark 1.1, GPT-Live, and GPT 5.6 all dropped. Theo and Ben break down which models you should care about, how OpenAI fumbled the Codex to ChatGPT app transition, the abysmal usage numbers for 5.6, and the latest drama surrounding OpenAI and Sam Altman. Plus, how many satellites would it take to trap humanity on Earth, and how many data centers to heat up the ocean?
We Tested GPT 5.6 Sol Early
We've spent six figures in tokens testing OpenAI's 5.6 Sol model to see whether if its better than Fable and what OpenAI have done to make it even better than 5.5. Also, we breakdown why we both moved our agents to Linux boxes, how to actually burn $65k on a single loop, and the Codex vs Claude Code subagent gap that's now bigger than the model gap itself.Thanks to this episode's sponsors Clerk an
Fable Is Back...kinda?
Fable was supposed to give us 14 days and instead we got 3 before the export ban. Now it's back at half the rate limits. Also, we break down why AI-generated Claude Code skills fall apart, what actually triggers Fable-to-Opus rerouting, the Mythos export-control timeline, and whether GLM 5.2 can really touch Sonnet 5.Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode! PostHog, all in one
GPT-5.6 is here! And none of us can use it.
A new "government-approved rollout" for GPT-5.6 is coming, and it's got us wondering: are we entering the next dark age of AI model access? Additionally, we break down the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier mode
The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5...
The US government banned Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models just after launch so we break down exactly how Project Glass Wing, a panicked AWS engineer, and Dario's failure to communicate with Washington triggered the chaos. Plus: SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition, GLM 5.2 beating Google, the Codex trick for running 200 parallel agents, and why your next GPU will ship with a GPS trackerThank you to
Our impressions of Claude Fable/Mythos (we filmed this before the ban)
RIP Fable 5. We recorded this before it got taken offline, but it's still worth talking about. The model is incredible. We really miss it.Thank you, Firecrawl, Depot, and Clerk for sponsoring!Firecrawl, the best api for searching and crawling the web: nerdsnipe.link/firecrawlDepot, better CI in every way: nerdsnipe.link/depotClerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerkSourceshttps://x.com/
Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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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