Episode
Slop Forking Git with Pi, Opus Can't Stop Complimenting GPT-5.4, React Slides Kill PowerPoint, and OpenAI Buys Astral for How Much?!
- Podcast
- You've Been a Bad Agent
- Published
- Mar 20, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4925
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- https://share.transistor.fm/s/5b1a445f
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Summary
Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictions Pi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust version The second opinion workflow: why Opus keeps complimenting GPT-5.4's architecture reviews Dwarkesh × Semi-Analysis: why we're massively GPU-constrained and ASML only makes 60 machines a year Cursor's pivot to background agents: from IDE hype to existential crisis Work trees vs separate clones: Matt's /work slash command workflow Building from the gym: the Mac Mini agent loop and why Wilhelm takes longer rest periods now Agents Anonymous meetup: Parakeet speech-to-text in 700ms, Steve Faulkner's vibe slides React slides > Google Slides: Matt's interactive presentation with live code demos Composer 2 is secretly Kimi K2.5: the modified MIT license drama Astral acquired by OpenAI for how much?!: is the VC → open source → acqui-hire flywheel the future? Anthropic's 81K interviews: everyone's both excited and worried, and less-Western countries are more bullish https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews