We've been testing GPT-5.5 for a few weeks now...

Fable Is Back...kinda?

Fable was supposed to give us 14 days and instead we got 3 before the export ban. Now it's back at half the rate limits. Also, we break down why AI-generated Claude Code skills fall apart, what actually triggers Fable-to-Opus rerouting, the Mythos export-control timeline, and whether GLM 5.2 can really touch Sonnet 5. Thank you to PostHog for sponsoring today's episode! * PostHog, all in one suite of product tools: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog [https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog] Sources available on our Substack: * https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ [https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/]

GPT-5.6 is here! And none of us can use it.

A new "government-approved rollout" for GPT-5.6 is coming, and it's got us wondering: are we entering the next dark age of AI model access? Additionally, we break down the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier model access looks like in a Fable/Mythos-tier world. Thank you to Composio for sponsoring this episode! * Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio [https://nerdsnipe.link/composio] Sources Available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ [https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/]

The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5...

The US government banned Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models just after launch so we break down exactly how Project Glass Wing, a panicked AWS engineer, and Dario's failure to communicate with Washington triggered the chaos. Plus: SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition, GLM 5.2 beating Google, the Codex trick for running 200 parallel agents, and why your next GPU will ship with a GPS tracker Thank you to Composio and WorkOS for sponsoring this episode! * Composio, connect your agents to everything: https://nerdsnipe.link/composio [https://nerdsnipe.link/composio] * WorkOS, your enterprise ready solution: https://nerdsnipe.link/workos [https://nerdsnipe.link/workos] Sources Available on our Substack: https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/ [https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/]

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