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How Humans Will Earn in the AI Economy with Jordan Gray from Public AI
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How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
Are your developer productivity metrics outdated? Learn how to accurately measure and boost your team's performance in the AI era.
Version History: Sony Watchman
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#222 - Sora 2, Sonnet 4.5, Vibes, Thinking Machines
Duration: 01:37:16
October 7, 2025
- The release of Sora 2 by OpenAI shows impressive advances in text-to-video generation, including photorealistic quality, audio generation, and the ability to generate existing media.
- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 is positioned as the best model for agents, coding, and tool use, with improvements in long-range reasoning, coding capabilities, and agentic workflows, aimed primarily at enterprise needs.
- OpenAI is becoming the most valuable private company due to significant share sales, highlighting both its rising valuation and the increasing importance of monetization strategies to maintain a competitive edge.
#221 - OpenAI Codex, Gemini in Chrome, K2-Think, SB 53
Duration: 00:47:01
October 7, 2025
- Medra AI is building physical AI infrastructure for life sciences, using robotics in labs to generate experimental data and accelerate the discovery of cures.
- OpenAI and Microsoft are seemingly lessening their reliance on one another, with Microsoft integrating Anthropic's models into Office 365 while OpenAI is working with Oracle and others on alternative cloud and compute capabilities.
- Several companies like Figure AI, Unitree and others are seeing a surge in funding and interest pushing the cost of humanoid robotics hardware down to the point where it is more accessible to research labs.
#221 - OpenAI Codex, Gemini in Chome, K2-Think, SB 53
Duration: 00:47:01
September 23, 2025
- The release of GPT-4 CodeX signals OpenAI's intent to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code in the coding assistant space, potentially attracting developers dissatisfied with Claude's infrastructure issues.
- Google's integration of Gemini into Chrome reflects the trend of embedding chatbots directly into software, offering users AI assistance within their browsing experience and potentially giving Google a competitive edge.
- Venture capital continues to heavily invest in humanoid robotics, as evidenced by Figure AI's major funding round and Unitree's IPO plans, driving hardware development and lowering the cost of humanoid platforms.
#220 - Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Claude for Chrome, DeepConf
Duration: 00:52:43
September 1, 2025
- Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and Genie 3 models demonstrate a new level of sophistication in image editing and world understanding, potentially impacting software like Adobe Photoshop.
- Anthropic and other companies are developing AI-powered browser solutions and agents, raising the question of what a true AI-native browser would look like and how it would change user interaction.
- A Stanford study suggests that generative AI adoption is disproportionately affecting job prospects for younger workers in AI-exposed fields such as software development and customer service.
#219 - GPT 5, Opus 4.1, OpenAI's Open Source, Astrocade
Duration: 01:48:33
August 11, 2025
- OpenAI released GPT-5, integrating previous models into a single system and improving reliability.
- Anthropic's revenue is rapidly increasing, driven by growing adoption of their LLMs for coding and other enterprise use cases.
- A recent report shows the growing prevalence of AI-driven cyber security, highlighting potential vulnerabilities.
#218 - Github Spark, MegaScience, US AI Action Plan
Duration: 01:32:12
July 31, 2025
- The potential of tools like Github Spark and Figma AI to democratize app development is being explored, though questions remain around market saturation and impact on larger, more complex software projects.
- A recently released "American AI Action Plan" by the Trump administration outlines 90 federal policy actions aimed at accelerating AI innovation, building domestic infrastructure, and leading international AI diplomacy, with varied reactions from AI safety and national security communities.
- Research indicates that LLMs may inadvertently transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data, and that longer "chains of thought" can sometimes degrade reasoning accuracy, highlighting the complexities of AI safety and control.
#216 - Grok 4, Project Rainier, Kimi K2
Duration: 01:42:10
July 14, 2025
- XAI's Grok4 achieved leading benchmark scores, surpassing competitors like Claude 4, and raising questions about security and alignment responsibilities.
- There's a growing competition around web browsers with built-in AI, as Perplexity and OpenAI explore ways to tightly integrate AI search, agents, and data control.
- The study from Meta found that AI augmentation slowed down expert developers, highlighting challenges in integrating AI tools effectively into existing workflows.
#215 - Runway games, Meta Superintelligence, ERNIE 4.5, Adaptive Tree Search
Duration: 01:56:21
July 8, 2025
- Cloudflare is now offering default blocking of AI data scrapers, potentially shifting the standard for website data collection and prompting debate on the long-term effectiveness of such measures.
- Runway is expanding into gaming with AI-generated interactive experiences, signaling a potential shift in content creation and highlighting the quicker AI adoption pace in gaming compared to the more heavily unionized Hollywood film industry.
- Meta is aggressively pursuing superintelligence research, poaching key talent from OpenAI and others, indicating a major shift in Meta's AI strategy and raising crucial questions about the company's approach to AI safety and alignment.
#214 - Gemini CLI, io drama, AlphaGenome, copyright rulings
Duration: 01:33:32
July 4, 2025
- Google's Gemini CLI, an agent in your terminal powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, is being aggressively launched with generous free usage, but early feedback suggests it's not yet as capable as cloud code in software engineering tasks.
- Anthropic released the ability to publish artifacts, or interactive web apps built within Claude, potentially pressuring platforms like Replit by simplifying app creation and hosting, possibly leading to AI companies offering comprehensive "AI app stores."
- The podcast discussed the legal battles around AI copyright, noting the initial US rulings favoring fair use for training AI models on copyrighted material, while acknowledging the potentially disruptive impacts for creators and the nuanced legal landscape.
#213 - Midjourney video, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, LiveCodeBench Pro
Duration: 36:36:00
June 26, 2025
- Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model (V1), offering affordable five-second video completions that can be extended up to 21 seconds, marking a significant step in accessible video creation.
- Google's Gemini AI family has been updated with new models, including the high-efficiency Gemini 2.5 Pro Flash Light, designed for cost-effective AI workloads and showcasing a trend towards balancing performance and speed.
- A new benchmark, Abstension Bench, reveals that frontier LLMs struggle with abstaining from answering when faced with uncertainty or underspecified contexts, highlighting a crucial area for improvement in AI safety and reliability.