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 20 Apr 10, 2026Claude Code Source Leak, Emotion Concepts in LLMs, and Surprising Facts AIs Know About Us.
This week Rahul, Shimin, and Dan return after a two-week break to cover the leaked Claude Code CLI source code, new model releases (Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4), Mario Zechner's perspective on deliberate pacing in AI-assisted development, a segment exploring unexpected capabilities AIs possess about each host, and two research deep dives: Anthropic's investigation into emotional concepts within language models and a study examining how sycophantic AI influences prosocial behavior.
Ep 19 Mar 27, 2026Thinking Fast Slow and Artificial, Meta's Trouble with Rogue Agents, and FOMO in the Age of AI
This week, Rahul, Shimin, and Dan cover Claude Code's new channels and scheduling features, a Meta security incident caused by AI-generated advice, Anthropic's survey revealing public expectations about artificial intelligence, a vector memory CLI tool project, the paper 'Thinking, Fast, Slow and Artificial' on how people defer decision-making to AI systems, compensation models involving AI tokens, NVIDIA revenue projections, and OpenAI's discontinuation of its Sora video generation product.
Ep 18 Mar 20, 20268 Levels of AI Engineering, Meta AI Delays, and LLM Neuroanatomy
This week, Dan, Shimin and Rahul cover Meta's struggles with its delayed Avocado AI model and potential Gemini licensing, NVIDIA's enterprise-ready NemoClaw fork, SWE-bench analysis showing PRs wouldn't pass human review, prompting superstitions and developer identity, the 8 levels of agentic engineering, mainstream media framing of AI coding, legal liability for agent-written code, and a deep dive into LLM neuroanatomy where a researcher topped leaderboards by repeating model layers without changing weights.
Ep 17 Mar 13, 2026Slop Garbage Collection, Cleanroom Rewrites, and Will Claude Ruin our Teams?
In this episode, Dan and Shimin follow up on the Anthropic Pentagon drama (supply chain risk designation, lawsuit, and big tech backing Anthropic), open-source licensing concerns regarding AI-generated clean room rewrites, and how AI coding tools affect team dynamics. Topics include AI amplifying team culture, prompt debt as a parallel to technical debt, code garbage collection practices, cross-functional AI pair programming benefits, and senior engineer review requirements at Amazon.
Ep 16 Mar 6, 2026Pentagon Anthropic Drama, Verified Spec-Driven Development, and Interview with Martin Alderson!
In this episode, Dan, Shimin and Rahul cover the Pentagon drama between Anthropic/OpenAI and the Department of Defense over AI usage red lines, introduces Sterling 8B — the first inherently interpretable language model — and explores verified spec-driven development (VSDD). The episode features the show's first interview, with Martin Alderson discussing which web frameworks are most token-efficient for AI agents.