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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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Issue #11: AWS + OpenAI: Model Exclusivity Is Dead
2w ago00:18:12Tap to summarizeIssue #11: OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents land on Amazon Bedrock. Model exclusivity is officially dead. T-MAP red-teams frontier agents at 57.8% attack success rate using multi-step tool-use manipulation. AgentCore Optimization ships the continuous agent quality loop. DeepClaude runs Claude Code's agent loop at 17x less cost. Cloudflare + Stripe lets agents buy infrastructure autonomously. Matt Pocock's skills repo hits 57K stars. Google renames Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. And shadow agents outnumber humans 45:1 in enterprise. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai
Transcribe →Issue #12: Agents That Spend Money
2w ago00:16:06Tap to summarizeIssue #12: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments launches with Coinbase and Stripe, giving agents wallets and spending authority. The AWS MCP Server goes GA with 15,000 API operations in 3 tools. TraceFix formally verifies multi-agent coordination via TLA+, cutting deadlock from 31% to 14%. OpenAI Symphony open-sources work management for coding agents. Mythos finds a real curl CVE. Claude Platform on AWS goes GA. DeepSeek-TUI explodes to 24K stars. Anthropic ships vertical financial agents. And James Shore proves AI doubles your maintenance debt too. 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 #23: Claude Opus 5 Lands on Amazon Bedrock
3w ago00:14:58Tap to summarizeClaude Opus 5 lands on Amazon Bedrock. Plus Qwen3, agentic memory wars, and why your agent scaffold is probably wrong. 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 #22: xAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Privacy Scandal
4w ago00:14:11Tap to summarizexAI open-sources the Grok Build stack after a privacy scandal. Plus AgentCore, Mythos CVEs, and the FORGE memory architecture. 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 #21: GPT-5.6 Goes GA — Programmatic Tool Calling
Jul 1400:13:10Tap to summarizeGPT-5.6 goes GA with programmatic tool calling. Plus AWS Agent Orchestrator, TraceFix, and DeepSeek-TUI at 24K stars. 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 #1: Mercury 2, Agentic IDEs, and The Plumbing Era
Jul 800:10:00Tap 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
Jul 700:09:56Tap to summarizeBetter models, worse tools. Why frontier model upgrades keep breaking your agent workflows, and what to do about it. 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 #19: GPT-5.6 Sol — The First Government-Gated Model Release
Jul 100:11:06Tap to summarizeGPT-5.6 Sol becomes the first government-gated model release. Plus agentic orchestration patterns and the AWS MCP GA. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai
Transcribe →Issue #19: GPT-5.6 Sol — The First Government-Gated Model Release
Jul 100:11:06Tap 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 2500:09:39Tap 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
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