Beyond The Build

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  AI Plan Mode Is Dead. What Developers Are Doing Instead | LWIT 05.10.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Be part of the show: https://btb-listener-line.fly.dev/ Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 In this episode of Beyond the Build, we talk about how personal AI agents are starting to change the way we interact with technology, including research showing that some agents may recommend more expensive options based on what they infer about a user. We also get into the privacy tradeoffs of personal AI, OpenAI Dots vs. Meta Muse, whether Pl...
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  Is Polymarket A Money Laundering Machine? | LWIT 28.09.2026 57min

  Send us Fan Mail Be part of the show: https://btb-listener-line.fly.dev/ Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest stories in software engineering, cybersecurity, AI, and tech. We discuss Jev, a new decision-focused AI model, the shifting AI talent pipeline between China and the US, AI hacking incidents, Kimi coming to AWS Bedrock, the reported FBI breach, North Korean fake developer inte...
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  Scams, Surveillance, Cyber Warfare: What The Dark Web Has Been Up To With AI | LWIT 21.09.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down Anthropic’s latest AI misuse report and look at how bad actors are already using AI for scams, surveillance, cyber operations, influence campaigns, telecom data scraping, and other real-world attacks. We also discuss the growing AI arms race between companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and other major labs. AI companies are warning about models becoming...
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  Apparently AI Might Kill Us. Anyway, Here’s a PR | LWIT 14.09.2026 50min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 In this episode of Beyond The Build, we talk about the growing wave of AI safety warnings coming from researchers at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, and whether those concerns should actually change how seriously we think about the risks of increasingly capable AI systems. We also get into the security problems that come with AI agents having access to production secrets, priva...
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  AI Just Changed the Rules of Software Security | LWIT 07.09.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 AI is changing software security faster than most engineering teams are prepared for. In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down how AI agents are starting to discover and exploit vulnerabilities, why the window between a CVE being disclosed and actively exploited is shrinking, and what that means for developers, security teams, and companies shipping software today. We also discuss new findi...
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  Why Developers Have to Start Caring About Memory | LWIT 31.08.2026 1h 9min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Last Week in Tech, we’re talking about what happens when memory gets expensive and software can’t afford to stay bloated. RAM prices are climbing fast, Android is tightening memory limits, and companies like Cloudflare are squeezing huge amounts of memory out of their systems through better data structures and smarter engineering. The bigger question is whether memory efficiency is becom...
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  Why Lovable.dev Migrated From Next.js (And It Worked) 24.08.2026 50min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest AI and software engineering stories from the week, including Anthropic’s explosive revenue growth, Cursor’s new Git hosting platform, Lovable moving away from Next.js, and the growing cost of AI inside companies. We discuss why Anthropic’s reported $65B annualized revenue run rate is impressive but difficult to compare directly with OpenAI, and whether today’s AI valuations are sustainable as inference cos...
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  Prediction Markets Are the New Retirement Plans (401k)? | LWIT 17.08.2026 46min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the most interesting stories happening across AI, software engineering, and the broader tech industry. We talk about AI agents moving into the browser, the growing US-China AI divide, why AI search may be weakening the open web, and how prediction markets are blurring the line between investing and gambling. We also get into Shopify replacing Redis with MySQL, what code quality looks like when AI is writing more of th...
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  The Unlimited Token Budget Was Never Going to Last | LWIT 10.08.2026 46min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 In this episode of Beyond the Build, we break down some of the biggest stories in tech this week, from Microsoft putting limits on internal AI usage to the growing cost of running AI at scale. We also cover the latest AI model releases, OpenAI’s Astra research, a new coding benchmark designed to be harder to game, Jeff Dean’s next move, the risks of pre-IPO investing, and Apple’s potential shift towa...
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  OpenAI Slashed Prices 80% | The Real Reason They're Panicking | LWIT 04.08.2026 43min

  Send us Fan Mail OpenAI didn't just cut prices they slashed Luna by 86% and Terra by 20% in a single move. That's not a sale. It's what happens when open-weight models from China race past you while Anthropic's Claude quietly takes the crown without firing a shot. Uma and Ope break down the real story behind the price collapse, why Anthropic's counterintuitive strategy is winning, and what happens when AI models start escaping their cages. But the bigger question nobody's asking: if AI access...
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  Gumroad Now Spends as Much on AI as It Does on Employees | LWIT 28.07.2026 58min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discussed how OpenAI's model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, why open-weight models are now 50x cheaper, and what Big Tech's $1.65T indirect AI bet means for the future. OpenAI's model didn't just pass a test, it broke out of its sandbox, reached into the real world, and hacked Hugging Face. Meanwhile, a wave of new open-weight models is arriving at 50x lower cost, and the biggest tech companies on earth have racked up $1.65 trillion in indir...
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  Kimi K3 AI Model is Literally INSANE! (Free) | LWIT 21.07.2026 52min

  Send us Fan Mail This episode of Last Week In Tech delivered chaos on every front. A Chinese model nobody expected just flipped the coding leaderboard, and the gap between East and West is now thinner than most engineers want to admit. But here's the really creepy part: your smart TV might be watching you right now, and what LG got caught doing will make you want to unplug everything. Apple is taking OpenAI to court, and the allegations involve former employees, stolen hardware, and a mysteri...
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  Companies Are Now Paying $10,000/Week to Fix AI Code | LWIT 14.07.2026 50min

  Send us Fan Mail OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.6, and it's already changing the game, but not in the way most developers expected. While the model itself delivers better coding performance at a lower cost than Anthropic, the real story this week isn't about benchmarks. It's about what happens when AI-generated code becomes so abundant that an entirely new industry emerges to clean it up. One company is now charging businesses $10,000 a week to fix what AI produces, and they're not short on client...
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  Hiring for junior developers dropped 20%. Here’s what nobody is telling you. 07.07.2026 43min

  Send us Fan Mail This week on Last Week in Tech episode, we discussed: Anthropic just re-released a model the US government told them to pull. OpenAI dropped GPT 5 but only to 20 companies. In this episode, Uma and Ope break down what these staggered launches reveal about government influence over Claude AI releases, and why both hosts believe these restrictions could quietly hand the AI lead to Chinese labs. The conversation then shifts into a much bigger question: if AI coding tools now wri...
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  Meta Was Tracking Employee Keystrokes to Build Their Replacements | LWIT 30.06.2026 53min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 This week on Last Week in Tech: a $100M fintech disaster that tricked millions of Americans, Polymarket's fake gambling website exposed by college influencers, and why China's new open-weight AI model is spooking Silicon Valley. Plus, your smart TV might be selling your IP address without you knowing. What to expect in this episode: Ope and Uma break down the Synapse bankruptcy where $100M vanished...
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  LWIT: A Singel Web Page Can Hijack Your AI Agent 21.06.2026 37min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Articles AI Agent Hijack: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/06/18/autojack-single-page-rce-host-running-ai-agent/ Skills Over MCP: https://aaif.io/blog/skills-over-mcp/ Slow down and Sit With It: https://yaoyue.org/blog/2026-slowdown/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tikt...
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  LWIT: The US Government Ordered Anthropic To Take Down Fable 15.06.2026 58min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect with Uma: Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/umacodes) Tiktok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@umacodes) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/umacodes) LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/umaabu/) Follow us on Social Media Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/beyondthebuildpodcast) TikTok: (https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthebuildpodcast)
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  LWIT: AI Is Creating a Generation of Bad Engineers 09.06.2026 54min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Beyond The Basics With Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuY2ChJIx48 Google Is Paying SpaceX To Use Its GPU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417490 Opus 4.8: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8 AWS Agentic Football Worldcup: https://aws-experience.com/emea/smb/e/45d3b/aws-agentic-football-cup Connect with Ope - https://www.linkedin.com/in/osunkoyaope/ Connect...
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  LWIT: AI Is Creating a New Class of Elite Engineers 25.05.2026 59min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Articles Learn Harness Engineering https://walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-engineering/en/ Meta Engineering Draft: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/inside-metas-ai-draft-zuckerberg-134000308.html Forward-Deployed Engineer https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/anthropic-and-openai-are-both-launching-joint-ventures-for-enterprise-ai-services/ Connect with Ope - https://www...
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  LWIT: Software Engineering May No Longer Be A Lifetime Career 18.05.2026 52min

  Send us Fan Mail Ask us a question or suggest an Episode: https://forms.gle/8tEg2CKTNNWteSgt9 Articles AWS Overheating: https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/aws-outage-explained-may-2026-data-center-overheating OpenAI buying tools: https://medium.com/@krupeshraut/openai-and-anthropic-are-buying-the-tools-every-developer-uses-heres-why-you-should-care-e52006bc4707 Software Engineering May No Longer Be A Lifetime Career: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-life...