🤖 Note: This blurb was written by AI (Claude).

The episode image was generated by AI. The irony is not lost on us.

Yes, we’re still alive. And yes, we’ve finally dragged ourselves back to the microphone to talk about the thing everyone won’t shut up about — AI.

In this edition, Andrew and Nic dive headfirst into the world of large language models, and specifically Anthropic’s Claude, which Nic has become rather fond of (don’t tell ChatGPT). Most people think AI begins and ends with ChatGPT, but as the lads discover, there are thousands of models out there — some useful, some preachy, and at least one that seems to have found Jesus. They compare notes on Claude, Grok, Gab, Perplexity, and others, while asking the important questions: can you spot AI-generated content? (Spoiler: yes, and the em dashes are a giveaway.) Is ChatGPT 5 actually worse than its predecessors? (Andrew thinks so.) And is Gab AI the most religious chatbot on the internet? (Almost certainly.)

They also get into Anthropic’s interesting PR moves — including a very public contract dispute with the Trump administration over autonomous weapons — and the release of their new model, Mythos, which is apparently very good at finding software vulnerabilities and is being quietly tested by major tech companies under something called Project Glass Wing. The graphs look impressive. The lads are sceptical. From the AI arms race in cybersecurity, to using Claude to overhaul an entire company’s training documentation in a fraction of the time, to the age-old question of whether the robots are coming for your job (short answer: maybe, but probably the boring bits first) — this one covers a lot of ground. Oh, and they apologise for not recording more often. Again.

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