Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben

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

Anthropic solved their compute problem by buying it from Elon?

Anthropic seems to have finally solved their compute problems (kinda) by buying it from Elon, the security problem is getting so much worse, and apparently Bun's getting re-written in rust? Thank you to PostHog and Composio for sponsoring today's episode! - PostHog, the all in one suite of product tools: nerdsnipe.link/posthog [https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog] - Composio, connect your agents to everything: nerdsnipe.link/composio [https://nerdsnipe.link/composio] Sources/references: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2052060691893227611 https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit/#december-2018-elon-told-us-to-raise-billions-per-year-immediately-or-forget-it https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2053391824702898475 https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2051595933704761618 https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310 https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures https://x.com/thdxr/status/2053570581807722968 https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2052691176373805534 https://x.com/garrytan/status/2052996691586932783 TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Anthropic/xAI00:08:59 - OpenAI Lawsuit00:25:40 - Bun in Rust00:34:34 - Security00:59:28 - Pottery Coding01:11:11 - Local Models

Theo Almost Lost $1 Million

This week Theo nearly lost a million dollars and Ben got AI psychosis (from gstack)... Thank you to Coderabbit and Clerk for sponsoring today's episode! - Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit [https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit] - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk [https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk] Sources/references: - https://x.com/theo/status/2014863266888233193 [https://x.com/theo/status/2014863266888233193] - https://x.com/theo/status/2050305813894648289 [ https://x.com/theo/status/2050305813894648289] - https://x.com/theo/status/2050314995561611357 [https://x.com/theo/status/2050314995561611357] - https://x.com/sama/status/2050671161915371998 [https://x.com/sama/status/2050671161915371998] - https://x.com/davis7/status/2050718508372431026 [https://x.com/davis7/status/2050718508372431026] - https://x.com/thdxr/status/2050719575033983323 [https://x.com/thdxr/status/2050719575033983323] - https://x.com/davis7/status/2050762009592148375 [https://x.com/davis7/status/2050762009592148375] - https://x.com/naval/status/2050560057675522500 [https://x.com/naval/status/2050560057675522500] - https://x.com/theo/status/1952229335416623592 [https://x.com/theo/status/1952229335416623592] 00:00 - Intro / studio return 00:52 - Azure $1M / Microsoft 11:22 - Cloud platform talk 18:08 - Coding agents / SDKs 29:06 - GPT-5.5 pricing debate 45:14 - OpenClaw workflows 01:12:37 - G Stack / G Brain01:29:00 - Dynamic UI / wrap-up

We need to talk about OpenAI

OpenAI and Microsoft are breaking up, Sam's drunk posting, Anthropic is being stupid again, and we still disagree about GPT-5.5Thanks to this episode's sponsors: - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk [https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk]- Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit [https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit]- PlanetScale, the fastest and most scalable cloud databases: https://nerdsnipe.link/planetscale [https://nerdsnipe.link/planetscale] 00:00 Intro 04:05 Sam drunk tweets1 3:13 Anthropic billing woes 28:27 OpenAI divorce 42:34 GitHub can't stop dying 59:40 GPT-5.5 retrospective Sources/references: https://x.com/sama/status/2046808114561974567 [https://x.com/sama/status/2046808114561974567] https://x.com/sama/status/2046808217133670800 [https://x.com/sama/status/2046808217133670800] https://x.com/sama/status/2048160404376105179 [https://x.com/sama/status/2048160404376105179] https://x.com/sama/status/2047403771416940715 [https://x.com/sama/status/2047403771416940715] https://x.com/om_patel5/status/2048204411986469232 [https://x.com/om_patel5/status/2048204411986469232] https://x.com/MSFTnews/status/2048749108127506936 [https://x.com/MSFTnews/status/2048749108127506936] https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2048834949667537369 [https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2048834949667537369] https://x.com/theo/status/2047721472521621991 [https://x.com/theo/status/2047721472521621991] https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049213597419774026 [https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049213597419774026] https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2047803291988590609 [https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2047803291988590609] https://x.com/ryanflorence/status/2048538797638599109 [https://x.com/ryanflorence/status/2048538797638599109] https://x.com/davis7/status/2048239401059434710 [https://x.com/davis7/status/2048239401059434710] https://x.com/davis7/status/2048077518725366173 [https://x.com/davis7/status/2048077518725366173] https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048444292562026713 [https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2048444292562026713] https://x.com/0xSero/status/2048744545853030690 [https://x.com/0xSero/status/2048744545853030690]

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

Anthropic month is finally over. We've got a ton to talk about: GPT-5.5 pre-release impressions, the Vercel hack, Cursor + xAI, Qwen models, Kimi k2.6, and so much more...Thank you to today's Sponsors! Depot, truly modern CI: nerdsnipe.link/depot [https://nerdsnipe.link/depot] Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit [https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit] Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: nerdsnipe.link/clerk [https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk] TIMESTAMPS00:00:00 - Intro, vacation chaos, and episode setup 00:01:34 - Vercel hack explained and security fallout 00:05:38 - Kimi K2.6 and the rise of strong open-weight models 00:14:29 - Cursor + xAI/SpaceX partnership and acquisition option 00:37:24 - GPT Image 2 impressions, strengths, and flaws 00:43:53 - Anthropic Cloud Code Pro pricing controversy 00:49:30 - GPT-5.5 first impressions: split opinions 01:02:25 - Critiques of GPT-5.5 for coding, context, and prompting 01:22:02 - GPT-5.5 Pro