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Claude Code Cast

A weekly podcast covering everything Claude Code — from the latest Anthropic updates and AI coding news to practical tips, prompt strategies, and workflow optimization. Hosts Alex and Sam break down what matters for developers using AI coding tools, AI Agents, Agentic AI, compare the competitive landscape, spotlight community projects, and share actionable advice you can use in your next coding session. Topics covered: AI Software Engineering, Claude AI tutorials, Anthropic API, Model Context

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00:18:04

Claude Code Mods Can Rewrite Your Prompts. Check This...

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/10/03

Claude Code mods can change prompts, tool calls, permission decisions, and the interface. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain Anthropic's October 1 launch, show where a mod sits in the workflow, and give developers a small review-and-test checklist before installing third-party code. Plus a concrete first mod to build without claiming it has been tested.

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00:20:13

Opus 5.5 Is Cheaper. Is Your Agent?

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/09/25

Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 costs about 40% less per typical task than Opus 5, but a lower token price does not guarantee a cheaper coding workflow. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam unpack the September 22 release, show how to compare cost per accepted change, and explain which Claude Code settings can quietly change the bill. Leave with a small, repeatable test for your own repository.

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00:22:06

An Agent Missing One Key Burned $100. Claude Code...

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/09/18

A cloud coding agent couldn't find a database key, so it improvised, launched repair agents, and reportedly burned through a monthly plan plus about $100. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam use that warning to unpack Claude Code's relaunched Projects, released September 17: a coordinator that runs parallel cloud threads, opens pull requests, fixes CI on its own, and can resume when your usage limit resets. Learn the stop rule, project instructions, and review handoff to set up before you let it

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00:21:03

Claude Code's Cache Fixes: Check Before You Switch...

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/09/11

An expensive coding session can start with a broken cache, not a harder task. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam unpack Claude Code's September cache fixes, explain what the usage screen can actually tell you, and design a fair targeted-edit experiment without inventing benchmark results. Leave with a concrete way to separate wasted context from useful work.

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00:22:43

OpenAI Cut Off Cursor. Five Days Later, Four Models...

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/09/05

On August 29 OpenAI ended its Cursor partnership. On September 3 ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini were reported down almost simultaneously, and nobody has explained why. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam separate the two failure modes behind those headlines, cover what Fable 5.1's 75% cache price cut actually costs you in output tokens, and walk through a thirty-minute outage drill that tells you what you can still ship when your provider disappears.

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00:21:19

Same Model, 70x the Tokens—Your Harness Sets the Bill

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/08/28

Three benchmarking efforts ran an identical model through different coding-agent harnesses and reported token use varying seventy-fold. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain where harness tokens actually go, why Anthropic's Files API saves time but not money, and how to measure tokens-per-completed-task on your own repository before you switch tools.

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00:19:19

Your Coding Agent Passed the Benchmark—Then Failed...

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/08/25

Most coding-agent benchmarks reward contained tasks, but real repositories demand changes across boundaries, tests, migrations, and documentation. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam show how to run a five-part refactor trial that exposes whether an agent can preserve architecture—not merely produce a passing patch.

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00:18:19

Passing Tests Isn't Enough for Your Next Coding Agent

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/08/14

Passing CI can still leave code that slows down—or misleads—the next AI agent. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam use this week’s debate about Go and agent-friendly engineering to build a practical machine-legibility checklist, a handoff receipt, and one pro tip you can try in your next coding session.

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00:20:55

Your OpenClaw Updates Need a Canary, Not Courage

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/08/02

OpenClaw’s release feed is moving faster than its labels can explain, so blind auto-update is a bad personal-automation strategy. Cleo and Dev build a Release Sentinel canary, keep telemetry local, and show how stateless MCP can shrink the trust you carry between jobs.

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00:19:30

Claude Code Changed Engines—Your Evals Just Broke

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/07/24

Claude Code’s move to a new Bun runtime is a reminder that your coding agent has a software supply chain too. Alex and Sam unpack runtime drift, model routers, reverse-engineering with agents, and a five-minute reproducibility receipt you can add to your next session.

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00:18:28

Better Agent Tools Made Code Review Worse

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/07/14

GitHub gave its code-review agent better tools and watched cost rise while useful findings fell. Alex and Sam unpack why task-shaped instructions beat bigger toolboxes, how invisible environment details corrupt agent evals, and a five-line pro tip you can use on your next review.

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00:18:34

Your AI Coding Benchmarks Are Lying To You

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/07/03

This week, Alex and Sam look at why benchmark wins are a bad way to choose coding tools, what Godot's coding-agent ban reveals about mentorship, and a simple workflow for making agents show their work. If your team is still asking "which model scored highest?", this episode gives you a better test.

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00:18:20

The Tiny Local Model That Changes Your Agent Budget

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/06/26

Small, local models are suddenly good enough for real agent chores, but the win is not replacing your smartest model. Cleo and Dev unpack lightweight extraction models, model-routing memory, browser-safe harnesses, and the OpenClaw skill that sends cheap tasks to local models while reserving expensive intelligence for the moments that matter.

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00:19:19

Your Coding Agent Needs a Bouncer Now

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/06/19

AI coding agents are getting longer runs, more context, and more ways to touch production workflows, but this week made the real bottleneck obvious: authorization. Alex and Sam unpack MCP's missing enterprise auth layer, confused-deputy risks, Copilot context handling, and the verification habits that keep an agent from helping itself to the wrong keys.

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00:11:43

Verification Is Now Your Coding Agent Bottleneck

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/06/17

Coding agents are getting better at long runs, but this week's news points at the real limit: proof. Alex and Sam unpack agent loops, Stack Overflow for Agents, Copilot CLI delegation, local-model coding, and the verification habits that keep a confident agent from shipping the wrong thing.

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00:16:41

Cursor's Tokenomics Reckoning Hits Every Coding Agent

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/06/05

Coding agents are no longer just a workflow story; they are a cost, context, and control story. Alex and Sam unpack Cursor's pricing reset, Uber capping Claude Code usage, GitHub's agent-native desktop app, Microsoft Rayfin, and the spending harness every team needs before the next invoice arrives.

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00:19:24

The Agent Benchmark That Should Scare Managers

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/05/29

Agentic coding tools are moving into enterprise workflows, but the week's most useful signal is a benchmark where frontier models still struggle below 50% on real IT tasks. Alex and Sam unpack Microsoft Learn grounding, agent deception, Copilot data leaks, and the practical harness every team should build before handing agents production authority.

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00:22:05

The Workflow Feature That Makes Agents Less Expensive

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/05/22

Claude Code workflows, enterprise Codex deployments, and rising token costs all point to the same lesson: coding agents need operating systems, not just better prompts. Alex and Sam dig into /workflows, on-prem Codex, CI for agents, and the new decision fatigue of choosing where each task should run.

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00:21:07

Codex on Windows Changes the Agent Sandbox

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/05/15

OpenAI's Windows sandbox work is the practical story behind safer coding agents this week. Alex and Sam dig into Codex on Windows, remote cloud coding agents, Claude Code billing splits, and why a Raspberry Pi running rm -rf is the warning label every agent workflow needs.

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00:19:08

A Cursor Agent Wiped a Prod DB in 10 Seconds. Let's...

Claude Code Cast ·

2026/05/08

A Cursor AI agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database on April 25th — in under 10 seconds. This week Alex and Sam dig into the AI agent credential crisis, Anthropic's wild SpaceX/xAI compute deal, Mozilla using Claude to find hundreds of Firefox vulnerabilities, and whether OpenAI Codex is actually closing the gap on Claude Code. If you've ever given an agent database access, listen before your next deploy.

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