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Claude Code Cast

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.

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Your Coding Agent Passed the Benchmark—Then Failed the Refactor Aug 25, 2026

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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 trial that exposes whether an agent can preserve architecture—not merely produce a passing patch.

Passing Tests Isn't Enough for Your Next Coding Agent Aug 14, 2026

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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 checklist, a handoff receipt, and one pro tip you can try in your next coding session.

Your OpenClaw Updates Need a Canary, Not Courage Aug 02, 2026

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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 stateless MCP can shrink the trust you carry between jobs.

Claude Code Changed Engines—Your Evals Just Broke Jul 24, 2026

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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 reproducibility receipt you can add to your next session.

Better Agent Tools Made Code Review Worse Jul 14, 2026

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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 evals, and a five-line pro tip you can use on your next review.

Your AI Coding Benchmarks Are Lying To You Jul 03, 2026

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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 still asking "which model scored highest?", this episode gives you a better test.

The Tiny Local Model That Changes Your Agent Budget Jun 26, 2026

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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 the OpenClaw skill that sends cheap tasks to local models while reserving expensive intelligence for the moments that matter.

Your Coding Agent Needs a Bouncer Now Jun 19, 2026

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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 layer, confused-deputy risks, Copilot context handling, and the verification habits that keep an agent from helping itself to the wrong keys.

Verification Is Now Your Coding Agent Bottleneck Jun 17, 2026

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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 verification habits that keep a confident agent from shipping the wrong thing.

Cursor's Tokenomics Reckoning Hits Every Coding Agent Jun 05, 2026

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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 Rayfin, and the spending harness every team needs before the next invoice arrives.

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