Why Pacing AI Won't Stop the Apocalypse, Apple Ruins UI/UX with the IPhone Duo, and How Unlimited Tokens Changes Basically Nothing

<p>Theo &amp; Ben break down Jacob Coxon&#39;s resignation after three years in pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic—and his warning that both labs are racing toward AGI and gambling with our lives—along with Dario&#39;s latest blog post about pacing the frontier and how Apple&#39;s iPhone Duo could have ruined app development (if AI didn&#39;t exist).</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks to this episode&#39;s sponsor, PostHog:</p><ul><li>PostHog: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/posthog</a></li><p><br></p></ul><p>Listen wherever you get your podcasts:</p><ul><li>Spotify: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/spotify</a></li><li>Apple: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/apple" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/apple</a></li><li>Elsewhere: <a href="https://nerdsnipe.link/listen" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.link/listen</a></li><p><br></p></ul><p>Sources available on our Substack:</p><ul><li><a href="https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nerdsnipe.substack.com/</a></li><p><br></p></ul><p>Timestamps:</p><p>0:00 Intro</p><p>2:53 New iPhones</p><p>22:24 Apple and Carriers</p><p>32:38 Astra’s Reliability</p><p>47:55 Codex Usage and Caching</p><p>1:19:44 Anthropic Resignation</p><p>1:38:38 Pacing the Frontier</p><p>1:40:02 Embedded AI Evaluators</p><p>1:43:10 The Hugging Face Hack</p><p>2:02:29 React Native Debate</p><p>2:09:18 Fast Inference Tradeoffs</p><p>2:12:40 Democratic AI Coordination</p><p>2:18:22 China and Global Pacing</p>