Show Notes
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...
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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
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