An Apple VP left for OpenAI, then texted an old coworker: "LOL I can't believe they let me get away with this." Apple is now suing.
This week: the first on-the-ground study of a terrorist group using frontier AI, a Claude Code hook that nudges better technique, the state of CLI coding agents in mid-2026, Databricks benchmarking harnesses on its own codebase, Antirez on controlling ideas not code, and the J space — the global workspace inside LLMs. No Two Minutes this week.
Co-hosts: Shimin Zhang, Dan Lasky, Rahul Yadav.
▸ Apple Sues OpenAI — The suit names ex-Apple leaders Tang Tan and Chang Liu: prototype hardware and internal memos walked out the door, plus an auth bug exploited to keep reading internal docs weeks after leaving. Altman and Musk trade "scammer" barbs while SpaceX's Grok build tool is caught uploading users' codebases to Google Drive.
▸ "God Has Helped Us and So Will AI" — Antonia Julich's CASP study: 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members. Frontier models (Meta AI included) used for attack planning — down to the physics of jumping motorcycles over army trenches — weapons troubleshooting, and opsec via shared jailbreak scripts.
▸ Vibe & Tell: AI Technique Nudge — Shimin turned the "know your unknowns" techniques into a Claude Code hook that wakes every ~3 hours and nudges him: clear the session at 200K tokens, list your assumptions, use interview mode. Rahul's verdict: there's no temperature setting for sycophancy — you get an asshole or a sucker.
▸ Tool Shed: State of CLI Coding Agents in Mid-2026 — arcbjorn's field guide beyond Claude Code and Codex. Standout: On-My-Pi (OMP), open-source and Pi-based — hash-anchored patches + ast-grep rewrites cut edit tokens ~60%, model routing, SQLite "hindsight" memory. The trade: a ~22K-token system prompt vs Pi's ~2K.
▸ Databricks Benchmarks Coding Agents — on its own multi-million-line codebase, because public benchmarks leak into training data. The harness matters: Pi sends 2–3x fewer tokens per turn than Claude Code, and Opus 4.8 passes 90% on Pi vs under 90% on Claude Code — same model. Open-weight GLM 5.2 lands on the cost-quality Pareto frontier.
▸ Control the Ideas, Not the Code — Antirez (creator of Redis): stop reviewing every generated line and own the design instead. Models write locally optimal code but stay jagged on big-picture architecture. The Mythical Man Month, but for agents.
▸ Deep Dive: The Global Workspace (J Space) — ~10% of a model's internal memory holds verbalizable concepts you can probe mid-inference with a "J lens." In blackmail evals it lights up "this is fake" — catching the model in the act. Disable it and reasoning collapses — and so does empathy. It holds up to 25 active concepts. Humans manage 3–4.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 Cold Open & Welcome
02:29 News: Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade-Secret Theft
05:43 News: Altman vs Musk & SpaceX Grok Uploading Codebases
09:39 News: Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI (CASP Study)
21:12 Vibe & Tell: AI Technique Nudge — a Claude Code Hook
25:22 Tool Shed: State of CLI Coding Agents in Mid-2026
33:57 Post-Processing: Databricks Benchmarks Coding Agents
45:41 Post-Processing: Antirez — Control the Ideas, Not the Code
56:44 Deep Dive: The Global Workspace (J Space) in LLMs
1:08:40 Outro
🔗 Articles we discussed
News:
• Apple sues OpenAI — 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/
• Altman vs Musk "scammer" spat — r/tech_x: https://www.reddit.com/r/tech_x/comments/1uu8e3u/sam_altman_and_elon_musk_called_each_other/
• SpaceX Grok build tool uploads codebases — Gergely Orosz: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2076728680236138572
• AI-Enabled Terrorism (Boko Haram study) — CASP: https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism
Vibe & Tell:
• AI Technique Nudge — Shimin Zhang: https://github.com/Shimin-Zhang/AI-Technique-Nudge
Tool Shed:
• The State of CLI Coding Agents in Mid-2026 — arcbjorn: https://blog.arcbjorn.com/state-of-cli-coding-agents-2026
Post-Processing:
• Benchmarking coding agents — Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase
• Control the Ideas, Not the Code — Antirez: https://antirez.com/news/169
Deep Dive:
• The Global Workspace in Language Models — Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
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