Auto Mode Goes Live, Qwen's 2.4T Open Model | 14 Aug 26

Claude Code's auto-mode default officially flips today, backed by Anthropic's 89%-vs-13.6% classifier study. Alibaba open-sources Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model — which gives us the excuse to explain what "active parameters" actually means and why MoE models are cheaper to run than their size suggests. Plus: Qwen's smaller 27B model drops tomorrow, OpenAI updates Codex CLI, and a clever trick cuts MCP context overhead by 85%. Hosts: Alex & Jules. New episodes daily.