The AI CLI war: who’s winning?!
Download MP3One year in the books! We're popping the non-alcoholic champagne to celebrate the first anniversary of the Breakeven Brothers podcast. In that time, the AI landscape has shifted from a gentle tremor to a full-blown earthquake, and in this episode, we're navigating the aftershocks. The AI arms race is escalating, with tech giants like Meta opening up their wallets for jaw-dropping nine-figure paydays to poach top talent directly from OpenAI. We dive into the strategies, the insane sign-on bonuses, and what this means for the future of AI development.
But the corporate warfare doesn't stop at talent. We also uncover the shocking deals being made to power these AI ambitions—we're talking multi-year contracts for *nuclear energy* just to keep the data centers humming. On the ground level, we debate the red-hot AI CLI battle, why one of us is happily spending $200 a month on a single coding tool, and whether coding from your phone is a dream come true or a work-life balance nightmare. Tune in as we discuss the shift from "prompt engineering" to "context engineering" and try to make sense of a world where AI bots are scraping 60,000 web pages for a single query.
Links:
- OpenAI's Deep Research Models & Prompt Rewriter
- Cursor's Mobile App Announcement
- Anthropic's Blog Post on Claude Code Usage
- Andrej Karpathy's "Context Engineering" Tweet
- Mark Gurman's Apple Report
- MKBHD's Quantum Computing Video
- Adrian from Simple Analytics' Tip (Bookmark)
- Justin Anderson's Profile & OpenAI Cookbook Link (Bookmark)
But the corporate warfare doesn't stop at talent. We also uncover the shocking deals being made to power these AI ambitions—we're talking multi-year contracts for *nuclear energy* just to keep the data centers humming. On the ground level, we debate the red-hot AI CLI battle, why one of us is happily spending $200 a month on a single coding tool, and whether coding from your phone is a dream come true or a work-life balance nightmare. Tune in as we discuss the shift from "prompt engineering" to "context engineering" and try to make sense of a world where AI bots are scraping 60,000 web pages for a single query.
- (00:00) - Intro
- (03:00) - AI Developments and OpenAI's New Releases
- (05:34) - The Rise of Mobile AI Applications
- (11:19) - Exploring the CLI Landscape for AI Agents
- (16:48) - Meta's Talent Acquisition and the AI Arms Race
- (31:29) - Talent Wars in AI Companies
- (35:31) - The Role of AI in Social Media
- (39:10) - Energy Needs for AI Development
- (41:28) - Quantum Computing: The Next Frontier
- (43:50) - The Shift from Prompt Engineering to Context Engineering
- (48:12) - AI's Impact on Content Creation and Publishing
Links:
- OpenAI's Deep Research Models & Prompt Rewriter
- Cursor's Mobile App Announcement
- Anthropic's Blog Post on Claude Code Usage
- Andrej Karpathy's "Context Engineering" Tweet
- Mark Gurman's Apple Report
- MKBHD's Quantum Computing Video
- Adrian from Simple Analytics' Tip (Bookmark)
- Justin Anderson's Profile & OpenAI Cookbook Link (Bookmark)
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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.
