How I broke Claude's "Unlimited" $200 plan
Download MP3After a surprisingly affordable and delicious trip to Vancouver, we're back and diving headfirst into the AI world's latest obsession: the talent war. Meta is swinging for the fences, reportedly dropping $100 million offers to poach top researchers from OpenAI. This has sparked a war of words, with OpenAI framing it as "stealing" and pitting their "missionaries" against Meta's "mercenaries." We break down the strategies, the ethics, and the sheer audacity of these moves. Is Meta making a desperate play to catch up, or is this a brilliant power move to build an unstoppable super intelligence team? We also go on a wild tangent to connect the dots between Elon's various companies, culminating in Bennett's sci-fi conspiracy theory that you have to hear to believe.
The battle isn't just for people; it's for performance. We explore the flood of new model releases, from the mind-bogglingly large Kimi K2 to the controversial Grok-4, and debate what truly matters more: raw intelligence or flawless "tool calling" capabilities. This hits close to home as Bradley, a Claude Code power user, shares his frustrating story of finally hitting the hard limit on his "unlimited" plan. Is the golden age of infinite AI coding coming to an end? We wrap up by dissecting the dramatic downfall of Windsurf, the AI IDE once courted by OpenAI, and how its top talent ended up at Google, leaving the rest of the team in the lurch. It's an episode packed with big money, big models, and even bigger drama.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: Summer Travels and Culinary Adventures
05:37 The AI Talent War: Meta vs OpenAI
20:13 Emerging AI Models and Tool Calling Innovations
38:16 The Future of Human-Machine Integration
44:57 The Impact of AI Saturation on Users
51:16 The Windsurf Acquisition and Its Implications
Links:
- Kimi AI Chat
- Article on the Windsurf Acquisition
- Google's MCP Toolbox
- Claude-Code-Kimi-Grok
The battle isn't just for people; it's for performance. We explore the flood of new model releases, from the mind-bogglingly large Kimi K2 to the controversial Grok-4, and debate what truly matters more: raw intelligence or flawless "tool calling" capabilities. This hits close to home as Bradley, a Claude Code power user, shares his frustrating story of finally hitting the hard limit on his "unlimited" plan. Is the golden age of infinite AI coding coming to an end? We wrap up by dissecting the dramatic downfall of Windsurf, the AI IDE once courted by OpenAI, and how its top talent ended up at Google, leaving the rest of the team in the lurch. It's an episode packed with big money, big models, and even bigger drama.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: Summer Travels and Culinary Adventures
05:37 The AI Talent War: Meta vs OpenAI
20:13 Emerging AI Models and Tool Calling Innovations
38:16 The Future of Human-Machine Integration
44:57 The Impact of AI Saturation on Users
51:16 The Windsurf Acquisition and Its Implications
Links:
- Kimi AI Chat
- Article on the Windsurf Acquisition
- Google's MCP Toolbox
- Claude-Code-Kimi-Grok
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Creators and Guests
Host
Bennett Bernard
Mortgage Accounting & Finance at Zillow. Tweets about Mortgage Banking and random thoughts. My views are my own and have not been reviewed/approved by Zillow
Host
Bradley Bernard
Coder, builder, mobile app developer, & aspiring creator. Software Engineer at @Snap working on the iOS app. Views expressed are my own.
