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A deepdive on what’s changed in how the leading AI lab makes software. Ever more code review and testing is done by AI, two-pizza teams very much alive, and more. Details from inside of Anthropic

OpenAI's core product engineering lead on how they are building ChatGPT Work to make AGI accessible to all of humanity: Sites, OpenClaw, Memory, Subagents, Finance, No-Code and advice.

Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today

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Watch now | 🎙️ Maddie Reese built a thermal printer anyone can message, a working Twitter pager, and a personal API using Cursor, a Raspberry Pi, and the radical idea that fun beats practical

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ain't nobody beats Anthropic at distilling Fable!

Watch now | 🎙️ I ran Opus 5 through my seven-model benchmark, compared it with six other leading models, and came away with a verdict I genuinely didn’t expect

A HUGE win for BFL!

Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS’s “heart-attack” billing error, and more

a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.

Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.

Watch now | 🎙️ I show you exactly how I use browser use and computer use in Codex to QA my app, manage LinkedIn, and shop for Hawaii, including the under-prompting trick that makes frontier models work harder

Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend

Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.

Turbopuffer cofounder Simon Eskildsen on the benefits of longer tenure, using first principles to build durable software – and why founders should be cautious when raising VC money

a quiet day.

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Listen now | 🎙 How Alex Lieberman (Morning Brew) built a Claude workflow that interviews him before drafting, codes his voice in Markdown, and runs a six-persona revision loop before posting

Elizabeth Stone, CPTO of Netflix, on managing AI-era product teams, the rise of systems thinking, and how to build excellence as an operating system

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a great week for open models continues.

Also: engineering leaders concerned about continued increase in code review load, devs at enterprises surprised by high enterprise pricing, and more

Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.

Thinky's first full LLM release is a banger and bonus: it's open weights!

Dex Horthy explains why context engineering is key to building more effective AI-assisted software without sacrificing code quality.

a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.

At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.

There’s talk about loop engineering, but what is it exactly? I looked into it, and found triggers, cron jobs, AI slop & more. Is it a “here today, gone tomorrow” trend?

a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...

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Watch now | 🎙️ Alex Finn breaks down his five-computer local AI setup, the Claude Code build-and-review loop that ships features while he sleeps, and why unlimited local intelligence beats a $20 subscription

Listen now | The great tech bifurcation: half the workforce is thriving, half is struggling, and burnout just hit a record high

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a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases

A big day for OpenAI.

Watch now | 🎙️GPT 5.6-Sol beats Fable on prototypes, PRDs, and browser use in my 5-category How I AI benchmark, and here's exactly where each model earns its spot.

A rewrite done in 11 days that would have taken a small team a year to complete, for $165K in tokens. Also: coding LLM “wars” heat up, AI fakers from North Korea still a problem when hiring, and more

Listen now | Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on the new product team structure in 2026, the rise of the “product staff” role, and the hiring traits that matter most today

SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.

2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.

In this AMA episode, Gergely Orosz answers listener questions on AI, engineering, hiring, and careers.

Listen now | 🎙️ I built a custom Claude Agent SDK harness to automate Sentry bug triage, saved the "dear agent, please fix this" prompt forever, and show you exactly how to build your own

a quiet day lets us read some condensed insight

The market where nobody finds each other, the hottest market for AI-related positions, tough for engineering leaders, and more. Based on details from 50+ hiring managers & job seekers

a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.

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Watch now | 🎙️ Alessio Fanelli shows his Symphony + Linear setup for running parallel coding agents from his phone, then demos Codex hunting underpriced Pokémon cards in real time

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