Artificial Developer Intelligence
Three engineer friends argue about AI so you don't have to. Model releases, research papers, tools, and the occasional existential crisis — no LinkedIn cringe required.
Latest Episodes
Ep 33 Jul 10, 2026GPT-5.6 Sol, Meta's Video Game Gulags, Know Your Unknowns & the Permanent Underclass
Ford quietly rehired the 'grey beard' engineers it had automated away after its AI-run QA kept failing — the same week an EY survey found the share of CEOs expecting AI to cut headcount had fallen from 46% to 20%. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul work through OpenAI's three-flavor GPT-5.6 Sol preview and China's move to wall off its own models, Meta's 'AI gulag' shipping bite-sized video games, the 11 agent techniques Thariq pulled out of the Fable 5 release video, Fernando Borretti on why no one escapes the 'permanent underclass,' an Okane read on AI saving ~3% of your hours while almost none reaches your paycheck, Exponential View's state-of-the-AI-economy deep dive (a new billion in revenue every two days), a SonarSource study on whether clean code even matters to coding agents, and a Two Minutes to Midnight that holds the clock at 4:45.
Ep 32 Jul 3, 2026GLM 5.2 Undercuts Opus, Self-Rewriting Harness, AI Out-Persuades Humans & Prompt Injection as Role Confusion
AI now out-argues expert human debaters — coaching the humans doesn't close the gap — but cap the AI's word count and the entire edge drops to 0.0 percentage points. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul work through Z.ai's open-weight GLM 5.2 doing an Opus-grade build at a third the cost, Xiaomi's Harness X rewriting its own scaffolding mid-task, OpenAI and Broadcom's 'jalapeno' inference chip read from a wafer photo, prompt injection reframed as role confusion (the green-shirt jailbreak), Bloomberg on the AI anxiety gripping Silicon Valley, Dan's rant on tokens-per-PR as the new lines-of-code fallacy, and a Two Minutes to Midnight that moves the clock to 4:45.
Ep 31 Jun 26, 2026Grok Buys Cursor, MidJourney Goes Hardware, Hermes Agent & Evaluation-Driven Development
MidJourney quit image generation to license micro-ultrasound chips and build 50,000 body-scan spas — a billion scans a month — and that wasn't even the strangest thing this week. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul open on SpaceX buying Cursor for $60B (Shimin's read: the first real sign of AI-tool consolidation), then work through Nous Research's plugin-maximalist Hermes Agent, a Nature roundup showing physician and engineer skills decaying the moment the AI is taken away, why Claude Code feels like a video game you can't put down, Evaluation-Driven Development that gates your PR on an offline eval pipeline instead of unit tests, and a Two Minutes to Midnight where ChatGPT slips under 50% share and Ed Zitron walks OpenAI's $38.5B 2025 loss. Clock moved up to 5:00.
Ep 30 Jun 19, 2026Fable 5 Ban, Meta's AI Gulag, Elias Thorne & What is Loop Engineering?
Three days after Fable 5 launched, a US national-security export order banned it for every foreign national on Earth — Anthropic's own employees included — and access was cut in 90 minutes. Shimin, Dan, and Rahul trace the fallout, then dig into Meta's applied-AI 'gulag,' the Elias Thorne dataset virus haunting every frontier model, why AI's speed doesn't move the 2%-a-year economy, Addy Osmani's loop engineering, a local DeepSeek 4 Flash demo, and a paper arguing AI shatters the Dunning-Kruger curve. Clock back to 5:30.
Ep 29 Jun 12, 2026Claude Fable 5 is Here! Plus: Meta AI Hack, LLMs as Black Boxes, and Future of Agents
Anthropic ships Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — and for the first time you don't control which model answers you, because Fable's safety classifier silently falls back to Opus 4.8 on cybersecurity and biohazard prompts. With Rahul back, the hosts also break down the Meta AI support-bot hack that handed over Instagram accounts (Obama's included) to anyone who asked nicely, mechanistic interpretability cracking open the LLM black box, Chris Roth's Future of Agents, Shimin's Inhabited Design skill, and a Two Minutes to Midnight on circular AI financing — clock moves to 5:20.