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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.

Latest Episodes:

The Agent Benchmark That Should Scare Managers May 29, 2026

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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 grounding, agent deception, Copilot data leaks, and the practical harness every team should build before handing agents production authority.

The Workflow Feature That Makes Agents Less Expensive May 22, 2026

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Claude Code workflows, enterprise Codex deployments, and rising token costs all point to the same lesson: coding agents need operating systems, not just better prompts. Alex and Sam dig into /workflows, on-prem Codex, CI for agents, and the new decision fatigue of choosing where each task should run.

Codex on Windows Changes the Agent Sandbox May 15, 2026

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OpenAI's Windows sandbox work is the practical story behind safer coding agents this week. Alex and Sam dig into Codex on Windows, remote cloud coding agents, Claude Code billing splits, and why a Raspberry Pi running rm -rf is the warning label every agent workflow needs.

A Cursor Agent Wiped a Prod DB in 10 Seconds. Let's Talk About That. May 08, 2026

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A Cursor AI agent deleted PocketOS's entire production database on April 25th — in under 10 seconds. This week Alex and Sam dig into the AI agent credential crisis, Anthropic's wild SpaceX/xAI compute deal, Mozilla using Claude to find hundreds of Firefox vulnerabilities, and whether OpenAI Codex is actually closing the gap on Claude Code. If you've ever given an agent database access, listen before your next deploy.

Claude Security Just Went Public — Is Your Codebase Already Exposed? May 02, 2026

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Anthropic's Claude Security tool just dropped out of closed preview and it will scan your entire codebase for vulnerabilities — and the results might be uncomfortable. This week we also dig into Cursor's $60 billion bet on being the "harness" rather than the model, why AI agents are literally forcing developers to keep their laptops open, and the Zig project's nuclear take on AI contributions. If you write code with AI help, this episode is required listening.

Claude Code Was Broken for Two Months (And Nobody Told Us) Apr 24, 2026

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Turns out the Claude Code quality complaints weren't in your head — three separate bugs in the harness quietly degraded your results for two months, and Anthropic just confirmed it. This week: the $100/month pricing scare that wasn't, Claude Mythos fixing 271 Firefox vulnerabilities, the SpaceX-Cursor deal that changes the competitive landscape, and why the Claude Code creator says your cloud-native workflow is probably wrong. Essential listening before your next session.

Claude Opus 4.7 Dropped — And a Local Model Drew the Better Pelican Apr 17, 2026

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Claude Opus 4.7 is here with upgraded vision, memory, and instruction-following — but Simon Willison's pelican benchmark just handed the win to a local Alibaba model running on a laptop. We dig into what that actually means, plus Anthropic's new identity verification layer, Amazon's MCP bet, and whether "personal software" is about to change who gets to be a developer. Your commute just got more interesting.

Max Effort Thinking Was Broken the Whole Time — Here's the Fix Apr 10, 2026

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A Reddit user just proved that Claude Code's "max effort" thinking mode has been silently failing since v2.0.64 — and most of us never noticed. This week: the bug, the fix, and what it says about trusting your tools. Plus, Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents, OpenAI goes to $100/month to poach Claude Code users, and the AI-generated PR crisis that's about to hit enterprise teams hard. Required listening before you open your terminal Monday morning.

Anthropic Accidentally Open-Sourced Claude Code. Here's What We Found Apr 03, 2026

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Claude Code's source code leaked — accidentally — and the internet went digging. This week Alex and Sam tear through what the leak actually revealed, why it matters for how you use Claude Code today, and why your CI/CD pipeline is quietly becoming the new bottleneck. Plus: GitHub Copilot just shipped parallel agents and the usage limit complaints are getting loud. Don't skip this one.

Copilot Put an Ad in My PR and Other Reasons to Switch Mar 30, 2026

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GitHub Copilot literally edited an advertisement into a developer's pull request this week — and that's somehow not even the most alarming Copilot story. We dig into GitHub's new policy to train on your code, the cache bugs silently inflating Claude Code API bills by 10-20x, and Boris Cherny's 15 hidden Claude Code features. This one's got receipts.

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