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Artificial Developer Intelligence

Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, & Rahul Yadav

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 news

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76:24

AI Safety's Conflict of Interest, Gemini 4 Argon, the...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/10/09

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 Google's own benchmarks at a promo price a fifth of Astra's, Meta books data centers as R&D, and Technique Corner returns. Plus AI safety's conflict of interest, Scott Aaronson's age of wonders and terrors, Glyph's serious AI product, agents that trade, and Anthropic's IPO.Hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav.▸ News: Gemini 4

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70:07

Meta Muse's 0-Day, DHH's Rails World Keynote, GPT-6...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/10/02

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 break. Meta's Muse leaks auth tokens, DHH tells Rails World hand-written code is no longer economically productive, a GPT-6 Astra review, cheap tokens, agent instructions, chatbots as psychics, and the bubble clock.Hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav.▸ News: Meta Muse's 0-Day — 3.4M downloads in three weeks and a strong model

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35:32

The Psychology of Software Teams with Dr. Cat Hicks

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2026/09/11

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 news, no clock. Shimin and Dan sit down with Dr. Cat Hicks — psychologist for the humans in tech, principal scientist at Catharsis, and author of The Psychology of Software Teams — on how organizations misunderstand developer cognition, how to learn deliberately with AI instead of letting your skills atrophy, and what a healthy AI-native

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50:40

Meta's AI Backfires, GLM 5.3 Flash, OpenAI's Jalapeño...

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2026/09/04

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

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58:16

AI Homework Atrophy, GitHub Commits Double, Nick Muy...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/08/28

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 26,000-student study on what AI homework does to exam scores, GitHub's commits doubling in four months, a sit-down with Nick Muy on why AI made every developer a middle manager, and Stripe buying OpenRouter because "the singularity started in January."Hosts: Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky, with guest co-host Nick Muy — CISO & VP of Platform

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56:41

Anthropic Put AI Agents on One Computer. They Went to...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/08/21

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 watermarking everything it writes, Zuck's 6,500-word superintelligence essay, Zed's post-Git experiment, and why everyone in tech is so sad.Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky. Rahul is away on vacation number two — one apparently wasn't enough.▸ Claude Watermarks Its Output — Starting August 2, every Claude model embeds

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63:36

Pacing the Frontier, Anthropic Models Go Rogue, Why...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/08/07

"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 1,350-signature plea to pace AI, rogue eval models, the Tech Week survey, software factories, and Tao on math after AI.Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang and Dan Lasky. Rahul is away — reportedly trapped in Claude's J space.▸ Pacing the Frontier — 1,350 frontier-AI employees (Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark among them) ask the US

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69:43

Kimi K3 & Qwen 3.8, OpenAI Agent Hacks Hugging Face,...

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2026/07/24

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 benchmark answers.This week: Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 reach the frontier, defenders fight prompt injection with prompt injection, behavior maps make harnesses auditable, model routing stops looking simple, and Claude's values vary across languages. The AI-finance clock moves to 4:30.Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.▸ Kimi K3

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69:18

Apple Sues OpenAI, Boko Haram's Frontier AI Usage,...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/07/17

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 on-the-ground study of a terrorist group using frontier AI, a Claude Code hook that nudges better technique, the state of CLI coding agents in mid-2026, Databricks benchmarking harnesses on its own codebase, Antirez on controlling ideas not code, and the J space — the global workspace inside LLMs. No Two Minutes this week.Co-hosts: Shimin

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75:30

GPT-5.6 Sol, the State of AI, Know Your Unknowns With...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/07/10

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 cut headcount dropped from 46% to 20%.This week: GPT-5.6 Sol, China walls off its own models, Meta's "AI gulag" ships mini video games, 11 agent techniques from the Fable 5 release, and AI revenue adding $1B every two days. Clock holds at 4:45.Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.▸ GPT-5.6 "Sol" — OpenAI's answer to Mythos

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75:17

GLM 5.2 Undercuts Opus, Self-Rewriting Harness, AI...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/07/03

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 undercuts Opus, Xiaomi's self-rewriting harness, OpenAI's "jalapeno" chip, prompt injection as role confusion, and the clock ticking to 4:45.Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.▸ GLM 5.2 — Z.ai's open-weight 750B MoE: Sonnet-to-Opus quality at ~1/3 the cost (~$5 vs $20 a build). Semgrep even had it beating raw Claude Code on

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55:39

Grok Buys Cursor, MidJourney Goes Hardware, Hermes...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/06/26

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: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.▸ SpaceX buys Cursor — Elon's SpaceX (xAI/"Grok Cursor") is acquiring Cursor for $60B in Class A common stock — a ~60x multiple on ~$1B revenue, largely to buy an enterprise foothold. (Shimin: the first real sign of an AI-tool consolidation phase.)▸ MidJourney goes hardware — the image-gen pioneer is

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70:01

Fable 5 Ban, Meta's AI Gulag, Elias Thorne & What is...

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2026/06/19

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.This week on ADI Pod: the Fable 5 export ban, Meta's applied-AI "gulag," the Elias Thorne dataset virus, loop engineering, a local DeepSeek V4 demo, the paper that shatters Dunning-Kruger, and NBER's bubble math.Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.▸ Fable 5 & Mythos 5, export-banned — a national-security order cut

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68:58

Claude Fable 5 is Here! Plus: Meta AI Hack, LLMs as...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/06/12

"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 answers blocked questions with Opus 4.8 instead.This week on ADI Pod: Anthropic ships Fable 5 and Mythos 5, hackers sweet-talk Meta's AI support bot into handing over Instagram accounts (including Obama's), interpretability opens up the black box, Chris Roth's Future of Agents, and Shimin demos Inhabited Design. Rahul's back; the clock

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54:32

Claude Opus 4.8, Undocumented Claude Code Features,...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/06/05

"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: that's the default that's coming.This week on ADI Pod: Claude Opus 4.8 and Anthropic's dynamic-workflow tool, Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, a deep read of the Claude Code source code, a Pinterest method for testing whether your AI skills actually fire, two essays on senior engineering and the "dead economy," and a bubble check full of

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56:13

OpenAI Beats Musk, Gemini 3.5 Flash & AI Burnout...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/05/29

"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 whether any one person should own AI safety.This week on ADI Pod: the OpenAI–Musk verdict and who really owns AI safety, Gemini 3.5 Flash in AI Overviews, a $48K home GPU server, AI burnout from two angles, the "$100M startup in your laptop" myth, the slop grenade, and an IPO squeeze that could funnel ~10% of the major indexes into three

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70:10

LLM Neuralanatomy with David Noel Ng, Forward...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/05/22

This week on ADI Pod: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines ships its first product (interaction models), Meta employees fight the mouse-tracking program with flyers, and the Palantir-coined "forward deployed engineer" job title quietly takes over the post-AI engineering org chart. Our sit-down is with Dr. David Noel Ng (https://dnhkng.github.io/) — author of the LLM Neuroanatomy series we covered a few weeks back. He explains why he watched action potentials race down rat neurons at 10,000 fps

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73:14

Multi-Agent Patterns for 2026, Anthropic on Colossus,...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/05/15

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 unpack why a billion-token context window needs an entirely different GPU architecture, and Phil Schmid's four sub-agent patterns for 2026.This week on ADI Pod: Dan, Rahul and Shimin go heavy on the Elon news — the OpenAI lawsuit, the Anthropic + SpaceX/XAI compute deal that just lifted Claude Code's peak-hour limits, and the Wall

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86:23

OpenAI's Goblin Problem, 10 Lessons When Code Is...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/05/08

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 gating its cyber model the same way it mocked Anthropic for gating Mythos last month? And what does it mean that Dan tried to write a personal project without Claude — and physically couldn't?Co-hosts Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav cover these and more on ADI Pod #24. This week: GPT-5.5 Cyber's gated release, OpenAI's "Where

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90:12

Why Models Over-Edit Your Code, Meta Keystroke...

Artificial Developer Intelligence ·

2026/05/01

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 Claude anymore? Co-hosts Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, and Rahul Yadav are joined by special guest Nathan Lubchenco — ML engineer and Substack author of *The future was yesterday* (https://nathanlubchenco.substack.com/) — on ADI Pod #23 (April 28, 2026).This episode covers OpenAI's GPT-5.5 release, DeepSeek V4 (1.6T base / 49B active

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