Anthropic's Answer to Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash Killed Benchmarks, and Muse Spark 1.3's Pretty Good

Theo & Ben break down their latest thoughts on how Astra and Fable 5.1's releases have changed the way they work, how they interact in T3 Code, and then circle back to the latest with Codex usage limits, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3, and the growing gap between model benchmarks and real coding workflows.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

04:57 Gemini 3.8 Flash

14:48 Muse Spark & small models

22:08 AI subscriptions

34:14 GPT-6 Astra launch & pricing

56:04 Rate limits & autonomous coding

1:10:14 Fable 5.1

1:23:23 AI design & 3D demos

1:40:53 Astra vs. Fable: Which to use?