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The Agentic Engineer Podcast
Hosted by Nate Archer · EN
Weekly AI agent intelligence for builders. The podcast companion to The Agentic Engineer newsletter by Nate Archer. Each week we break down the biggest stories in agentic AI — new frameworks, tools, infrastructure, and what it all means for developers building with agents.
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The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #1: Mercury 2, Agentic IDEs, and The Plumbing Era
2w ago00:10:00Tap to summarizeMercury 2 ships 1,009 tokens/sec via diffusion. Emdash launches the agentic IDE. Cloudflare Agents SDK debuts. Moonshine brings on-device STT.
Transcribe →The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #20: Better Models, Worse Tools
2w ago00:09:49Tap to summarizeOpus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 invent fake schema fields when calling third-party tools. Armin Ronacher investigated why RL training on Claude Code creates an accidental moat. OpenAI Codex accounts for 99.8% of all tokens internally. Strix hits #1 trending for AI pentesting. AWS CloudFormation Express Mode ships 4x faster deploys. Code cleanliness paper shows 7-8% token savings. And Zuckerberg says agents are hard while OpenAI says they work perfectly.
Transcribe →The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #19: GPT-5.6 Sol — The First Government-Gated Model Release
3w ago00:11:06Tap to summarizeOpenAI gates GPT-5.6 Sol behind government pre-approval. GLM 5.2 beats Claude Opus 4.8 on Semgrep's IDOR benchmark at 1/6 the cost. Google ships DESIGN.md for coding agent visual identity. AWS Lambda MicroVMs launch as GA serverless sandboxes for AI agents.
Transcribe →Issue #19: GPT-5.6 Sol — The First Government-Gated Model Release
3w ago00:11:06Tap to summarizeIssue #19 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 Sol behind government pre-approval — the first government-gated model release. GLM 5.2 beats Claude Opus 4.8 on Semgrep's IDOR benchmark at 1/6 the cost. Google ships DESIGN.md for coding agent visual identity. OpenAI Daybreak patches vulnerabilities at 30M commit scale. Herdr brings tmux to the multi-agent era. Agent-Native crystallizes the define-once-use-everywhere pattern. A paper proves repo-level governance matters more than individual agent quality. AWS Lambda MicroVMs launch as GA serverless sandboxes for AI agents. And Meta's tokenmaxxing mandates prove adoption metrics are fake until they're organic.
Transcribe →Issue #18: Anthropic now requires government ID for Claude access
Jun 25Tap to summarizeAnthropic now requires government ID for Claude access. 754 HN points of fury. GLM-5.2 drops under MIT the same week. Plus AWS Continuum autonomous security agents, codebase-memory-mcp, and your coding agent might be killing your SSD. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai
Transcribe →The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #18: Claude Requires Government ID — The Trust Fracture
Jun 2400:09:42Tap to summarizeAnthropic requires government ID for Claude access. AWS Summit NYC expands AgentCore with managed knowledge base and web search. codebase-memory-mcp gains 6,372 stars. Flue ships sandbox agent framework for TypeScript. Project Fetch Phase 2 does robotics 20x faster. AWS Continuum launches autonomous security at machine speed.
Transcribe →Issue #17: The First Frontier Model Recall — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Pulled by Government Order
Jun 1700:10:52Tap to summarizeIssue #17 of The Agentic Engineer Podcast. The US government pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from production — first frontier model recall by government order. AWS ships three agentic services in one week: DevOps Agent with custom SRE agents and MCP/A2A headless access, FinOps Agent for autonomous cost management, OpenSearch MCP Apps for agentic observability. NVIDIA SkillSpector scans agent skills for 64 vulnerability patterns. Parallel-Synthesis paper shares KV caches directly between agent branches for 2.5-11x speedup. AWS Blocks launches Infrastructure from Code with AI steering files baked into npm packages. And the hot take: AI hasn't replaced engineers, but fewer seniors can handle more work now.
Transcribe →The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #17: The First Frontier Model Recall
Jun 1700:14:28Tap to summarizeUS government pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from production. AWS ships three agentic services: DevOps Agent, FinOps Agent, OpenSearch MCP Apps. NVIDIA SkillSpector scans agent skills for 64 vulnerability patterns. AWS Blocks launches Infrastructure from Code.
Transcribe →Issue #17: The First Frontier Model Recall
Jun 1700:14:28Tap to summarizeUS government pulls Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from production. AWS ships three agentic services. AWS Blocks hits public preview with Infrastructure from Code.
Transcribe →The Agentic Engineer Podcast - Issue #16: Agentic Commerce Goes B2B
Jun 1000:10:15Tap to summarizeAmazon licenses its agentic shopping assistant to outside retailers. Perplexity publishes production data showing autonomous agents cut knowledge work time 87%. DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision. Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 land on AWS Bedrock. Ladybird kills public PRs.
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