Claude Code Cast

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 and Sam use that warning to unpack...

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 screen can actually tell you, and design a...

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 AI hosts Alex and Sam separate the two...

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 where harness tokens actually go, why...

Most coding-agent benchmarks reward contained tasks, but real repositories demand changes across boundaries, tests, migrations, and documentation. Fictional AI hosts Alex and Sam show how to run a five-part refactor...

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 build a practical machine-legibility...

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 telemetry local, and show how...

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 with agents, and a five-minute...

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 invisible environment details corrupt agent...

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 agents show their work. If your team is...

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-routing memory, browser-safe harnesses, and...

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 unpack MCP's missing enterprise auth...

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 delegation, local-model coding, and the...

<p>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 agent-native desktop app, Microsoft...

<p>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 and Sam unpack Microsoft Learn...