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

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] Listen wherever you get your podcasts: * Spotify: https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify [https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify] * Apple: https://nerdsnipe.link/apple [https://nerdsnipe.link/apple] * Elsewhere: https://nerdsnipe.link/listen [https://nerdsnipe.link/listen] 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

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