We need to talk about OpenAI

OpenAI and Microsoft are breaking up, Sam's drunk posting, Anthropic is being stupid again, and we still disagree about GPT-5.5Thanks to this episode's sponsors: - Clerk, the auth platform with the best DX: https://nerdsnipe.link/clerk- Coderabbit, the ultimate AI code reviewer: ⁠https://nerdsnipe.link/coderabbit- PlanetScale, the fastest and most scalable cloud databases: https://nerdsnipe.link/planetscale

00:00 Intro

04:05 Sam drunk tweets1

3:13 Anthropic billing woes

28:27 OpenAI divorce

42:34 GitHub can't stop dying

59:40 GPT-5.5 retrospective

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