This Day in AI Podcast

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro & Fatal Patricia Update
01:40 Promotions (Discord, Black Friday, LinkedIn)
04:36 Claude 4.5 Opus - Best Anthropic Model Ever?
31:17 Computer Use API Updates
36:14 Will AI Replace 57% of Jobs? (McKinsey Report)
1:00:52 Claude 4.5 Opus Demos (Christmas Hut & Diss Track Preview)
1:07:13 Microsoft Farah 7B - Moose Porn Refusals
1:21:51 Why ChatGPT's MCP-UI Apps Are a Bad Idea
1:42:01 šŸŽµ Claude 4.5 Opus Diss Track (Full Song)
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Anthropic just dropped Claude 4.5 Opus and it might be the best AI model of 2024. In this episode, we compare Claude 4.5 Opus vs Gemini 3 Pro vs GPT-5.1, breaking down the new API features including effort parameters, context management, and computer use updates. We also test Microsoft's new Farah 7B parameter model for computer use - with hilarious refusal results. Plus, we react to McKinsey's controversial report claiming AI agents could automate 57% of US jobs by 2030. 

We dive deep into Anthropic's pricing (3x cheaper than Opus 4.1), why Claude is now beating Google and OpenAI on agentic coding benchmarks, and whether MCP-UI apps in ChatGPT are a step backwards for AI workflows. Is Claude 4.5 Opus the new king of AI coding assistants? Should enterprises be worried about AI job replacement? And why did Microsoft's Farah model refuse to draw a moose? All this plus an AI-generated diss track roasting Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Sundar Pichai.

What is This Day in AI Podcast?

Join Michael and Chris Sharkey, two proudly average tech enthusiasts, as they stumble through the world of artificial intelligence with all the grace of a robot learning to dance. This (sometimes weekly*) podcast delivers an hour-long conversation about their thoroughly middle-of-the-road adventures with AI.

No PhDs. No Silicon Valley insights. Just two guys with enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, sharing their unexceptional yet entertaining experiences with AI tools and technology.

Subscribe now to hear:

ā€¢ Mediocre hot takes on AI developments
ā€¢ Stories of AI experiments gone adequately okay
ā€¢ The most average advice you'll ever need
ā€¢ Two Sharkeys trying their best to sound smart about algorithms
ā€¢ Childish AI prank calls that somehow fool everybody
ā€¢ Attempts at using AI for phishing attacks on their mother
ā€¢ "Chart-topping" AI songs according to the brothers

Join our perfectly mediocre community where being average at AI is celebrated, questions are encouraged, and learning through mistakes is our specialty. Because let's face it - most of us are figuring this out as we go along.

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