A weekly podcast covering everything Claude Code — from the latest Anthropic updates and AI coding news to practical tips, prompt strategies, and workflow optimization. Hosts Alex and Sam break down what matters for developers using AI coding tools, AI Agents, Agentic AI, compare the competitive landscape, spotlight community projects, and share actionable advice you can use in your next coding session. Topics covered: AI Software Engineering, Claude AI tutorials, Anthropic API, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic Coding, LLM-powered development, and Software Architecture with AI.
Latest episodes
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16 min
Agent Skills Are Going Neutral. What Actually Travels Between Coding Tools?
Agent Skills is moving to the Agentic AI Foundation. What can a Claude Code workflow carry between tools, and what needs checking again? A practical, synthetic migration exercise s…
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22 min
Claude Code Fixed a False Success. Can You Trust Done?
Claude Code 2.1.301 fixes a workflow failure that could skip a step while reporting success, plus search failures that looked like empty results. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam ex…
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21 min
Claude Code's October Fixes Target the Agent Problems That Break Trust
Claude Code's October releases fix lost session turns, permission handling regressions, sandbox rule bypasses, and WebFetch truncation. Fictional hosts Alex and Sam explain which f…
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18 min
Claude Code Mods Can Rewrite Your Prompts. Check This Before Installing One
Claude Code mods can change prompts, tool calls, permission decisions, and the interface. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain Anthropic's October 1 launch, show where a mod sit…
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20 min
Opus 5.5 Is Cheaper. Is Your Agent?
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 costs about 40% less per typical task than Opus 5, but a lower token price does not guarantee a cheaper coding workflow. Fictional AI hosts Alex and…
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22 min
An Agent Missing One Key Burned $100. Claude Code Projects Needs This Stop Rule
A cloud coding agent couldn't find a database key, so it improvised, launched repair agents, and reportedly burned through a monthly plan plus about $100. Fictional AI hosts Alex a…
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21 min
Claude Code's Cache Fixes: Check Before You Switch Models
An expensive coding session can start with a broken cache, not a harder task. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam unpack Claude Code's September cache fixes, explain what the usage scr…
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23 min
OpenAI Cut Off Cursor. Five Days Later, Four Models Went Down.
On August 29 OpenAI ended its Cursor partnership. On September 3 ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini were reported down almost simultaneously, and nobody has explained why. Fictional…
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21 min
Same Model, 70x the Tokens—Your Harness Sets the Bill
Three benchmarking efforts ran an identical model through different coding-agent harnesses and reported token use varying seventy-fold. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam explain wher…
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19 min
Your Coding Agent Passed the Benchmark—Then Failed the Refactor
Most coding-agent benchmarks reward contained tasks, but real repositories demand changes across boundaries, tests, migrations, and documentation. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam s…
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18 min
Passing Tests Isn't Enough for Your Next Coding Agent
Passing CI can still leave code that slows down—or misleads—the next AI agent. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam use this week’s debate about Go and agent-friendly engineering to bui…
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21 min
Your OpenClaw Updates Need a Canary, Not Courage
OpenClaw’s release feed is moving faster than its labels can explain, so blind auto-update is a bad personal-automation strategy. Cleo and Dev build a Release Sentinel canary, keep…
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20 min
Claude Code Changed Engines—Your Evals Just Broke
Claude Code’s move to a new Bun runtime is a reminder that your coding agent has a software supply chain too. Alex and Sam unpack runtime drift, model routers, reverse-engineering…
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18 min
Better Agent Tools Made Code Review Worse
GitHub gave its code-review agent better tools and watched cost rise while useful findings fell. Alex and Sam unpack why task-shaped instructions beat bigger toolboxes, how invisib…
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19 min
Your AI Coding Benchmarks Are Lying To You
This week, Alex and Sam look at why benchmark wins are a bad way to choose coding tools, what Godot's coding-agent ban reveals about mentorship, and a simple workflow for making ag…
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18 min
The Tiny Local Model That Changes Your Agent Budget
Small, local models are suddenly good enough for real agent chores, but the win is not replacing your smartest model. Cleo and Dev unpack lightweight extraction models, model-routi…
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19 min
Your Coding Agent Needs a Bouncer Now
AI coding agents are getting longer runs, more context, and more ways to touch production workflows, but this week made the real bottleneck obvious: authorization. Alex and Sam unp…
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12 min
Verification Is Now Your Coding Agent Bottleneck
Coding agents are getting better at long runs, but this week's news points at the real limit: proof. Alex and Sam unpack agent loops, Stack Overflow for Agents, Copilot CLI delegat…
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17 min
Cursor's Tokenomics Reckoning Hits Every Coding Agent
Coding agents are no longer just a workflow story; they are a cost, context, and control story. Alex and Sam unpack Cursor's pricing reset, Uber capping Claude Code usage, GitHub's…
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19 min
The Agent Benchmark That Should Scare Managers
Agentic coding tools are moving into enterprise workflows, but the week's most useful signal is a benchmark where frontier models still struggle below 50% on real IT tasks. Alex an…