Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

Our impressions of Claude Fable/Mythos (we filmed this before the ban)

RIP Fable 5. We recorded this before it got taken offline, but it's still worth talking about. The model is incredible. We really miss it. Thank you, Firecrawl, Depot, and Clerk for sponsoring! * Firecrawl, the best api for searching and crawling the web: nerdsnipe.link/firecrawl [https://nerdsnipe.link/firecrawl] * Depot, better CI in every way: nerdsnipe.link/depot [https://nerdsnipe.link/Depot] * Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk [https://nerdsnipe.link/Clerk] Sources * https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2043177597434306699 [https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2043177597434306699] * https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code [https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code] * https://x.com/paradite_/status/2064585901351792887 [https://x.com/paradite_/status/2064585901351792887] * https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf ( [⁠https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf⁠ (]page 13 has the “prompt modification” quote) * https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement [https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement] Timestamps * 0:00 Intro * 3:29 Fable First Impressions * 10:24 Benchmark Drama * 26:42 Claude Code & Workflows * 36:07 Pricing & June 22 Cutoff * 39:54 Data Retention * 45:58 Hidden Safeguards * 1:07:01 The Claude Constitution

Now even Google's buying GPUs from SpaceX?

Cloudflare buys Void0, Google buying up compute from xAI, and Claude seems to be getting more anxious so we're here to break down everything this week on another episode of Nerd Snipe! Thank you to Composio for sponsoring today's episode! * Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio [https://nerdsnipe.link/composio] Sources: * https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047 [https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047] * https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2062970770612199542 [https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2062970770612199542] * https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2063099050719846719 [https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2063099050719846719] * https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/ [https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/] * https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1963443919150330139 [https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1963443919150330139] * https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568862479208923 [https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568862479208923] * https://x.com/HSVSphere/status/2060396271756595666 [https://x.com/HSVSphere/status/2060396271756595666] * https://x.com/theo/status/2061018426152530232 [https://x.com/theo/status/2061018426152530232] * https://x.com/Teknium/status/2062522290504613944 [https://x.com/Teknium/status/2062522290504613944] 01:58 Cloudflare vs Vercel 13:03 Convex angle 19:59 SpaceX compute 35:49 AI self-improvement 44:45 Article reactions 50:28 Claude anxiety 57:42 Guardrails 01:08:21 Cursed image gen 01:19:18 Hermes agents

We (mostly) like Claude Opus 4.8

Opus 4.8 + a ton of new stuff in Claude Code dropped this week, and we actually kinda like it. There's also a new benchmark that's actually good, and we have a lot of thoughts about the future of these AI labs... Thank you PostHog and Clerk for sponsoring! * PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog [https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog] * Clerk, the best dx in auth: nerdsnipe.link/clerk [https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk] SOURCES * https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 [https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8] * https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241 [https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241] * https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343 [https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343] * ⁠https://x.com/zoink/status/2060769829133721974 [https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343] * https://x.com/maria_rcks/status/2060937270824153251 [https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343] * https://x.com/_catwu/status/2060054180379689074 [https://x.com/_catwu/status/2060054180379689074] * https://x.com/datacurve/status/2060834005998793199 [https://x.com/datacurve/status/2060834005998793199] * https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ [https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/] * https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#results [https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#results] * https://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yaml [https://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yaml] * https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/ [https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/] * https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422 [https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422] * https://x.com/theo/status/2060199299632472494 [https://x.com/theo/status/2060199299632472494] * https://x.com/theo/status/2060901326058561795 [https://x.com/theo/status/2060901326058561795] * https://x.com/38twelveDaily/status/2060408696945975631 [https://x.com/38twelveDaily/status/2060408696945975631] 00:00 - Shower Thoughts 02:44 - Deep SWE Benchmark 10:45 - Opus vs GPT-5.5 19:57 - Anthropic’s Huge Raise 25:39 - Token Maxing 40:02 - AI Slot Machine 43:49 - Claude Code Friction 50:01 - Opus, Mythos, and Safety

Google is Not a Serious Company

Not only did Google accidentally ban Railway's account, but their new flagship model Gemini 3.5 Flash is absurdly bad. Oh and apparently Theo's building his own cloud... Thank you Macroscope and GT for sponsoring today's episode! * Macroscope: ⁠nerdsnipe.link/macroscope [https://nerdsnipe.link/macroscope] * General Translation: nerdsnipe.link/gt [https://nerdsnipe.link/gt] SOURCES ⁠https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823⁠ [https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823] ⁠https://x.com/JustJake/status/2056881510939283776⁠ [https://x.com/JustJake/status/2056881510939283776] ⁠https://x.com/KorduGG/status/2059141337895604626⁠ [https://x.com/KorduGG/status/2059141337895604626] ⁠https://x.com/unboringtech/status/2059144145273491610⁠ [https://x.com/unboringtech/status/2059144145273491610] TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Gemini fallout 05:21 - Video gen 10:10 - Google Cloud 14:04 - Windsurf/Cursor 25:10 - Manus/Meta 30:00 - China lock-in 35:00 - Cursor/xAI 45:00 - Cloud workflows 50:32 - Lakebed 65:22 - Hermes/security

How the OpenClaw creator uses $1.3 million of tokens

Peter, the creator of openclaw is apparently going through $1,300,000 worth of tokens every month. Seems like we're not using nearly enough tokens. Oh and the security psychosis is getting worse. (Anthropic is being bad again too) Thank you to today's sponsors! - AgentMail, email inboxes for your agents: nerdsnipe.link/agentmail [https://nerdsnipe.link/agentmail] - Clerk, the best experience for auth, orgs, billing, and more: nerdsnipe.link/clerk [https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk] TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 02:44 - Token Spend 06:47 - Token Future 12:12 - Secure Agents 22:50 - Anthropic Rules 31:35 - Security 39:36 - Token Tax 49:49 - AI Psychosis 59:47 - macOS 01:01:43 - AI Video