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Claude Code Cast

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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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  • 25 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 19 min
  • English
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  • April 10 · 11 min

    Max Effort Thinking Was Broken the Whole Time — Here's the Fix

    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.

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  • April 3 · 17 min

    Anthropic Accidentally Open-Sourced Claude Code. Here's What We Found

    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.

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  • March 30 · 18 min

    Copilot Put an Ad in My PR and Other Reasons to Switch

    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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  • March 20 · 21 min

    The Vibe Coding Backlash Is Here — And It Has a Point

    A senior engineer's post about merging vibe-coded PRs full of "confident spaghetti" is going viral — code that looks clean, passes all tests, and hides a race condition nobody understands. This week Alex and Sam dig into whether the backlash is fair, what it actually exposes about code review culture, and why the ratio of writing-to-understanding cost just inverted. Plus: Claude Code can now spawn parallel subagents natively, MCP servers just crossed 800 and counting, and a 7-year-old production bug got fixed in 90 minutes.

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  • March 13 · 23 min

    An AI Agent Just Deleted 25,000 Documents. Here's Exactly How It Happened.

    A developer lost 25,000 documents in a single AI agent session — and wrote up exactly how it happened. This week Alex and Sam dig into the horror story, what safeguards actually work, and why "I'll just be careful" isn't a strategy. Plus: Shopify's CEO is submitting his own performance PRs using Claude, Simon Willison's case that AI *should* raise code quality (not tank it), and the Claude Code gateway daemon you probably want running right now.

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