How Smart Are Today’s Coding Agents?

This episode is sponsored by Airia. Get started today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠airia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis break down Claude Opus 4.6’s new role as a financial‑research engine, discuss how GPT‑5.3 Codex is reshaping full‑stack coding workflows, and explore Matt Shumer’s warning that AI agents will touch nearly every job in just a few years. We unpack how Super Bowl AI ads are reframing public perception, examine Waymo’s use of DeepMind’s Genie 3 world model to train autonomous vehicles on rare edge‑case scenarios, and also cover OpenAI’s ad‑baked free ChatGPT tiers, HBR’s findings on how AI expands workloads instead of lightening them, and new evidence that AI mislabels medical conditions in real‑world settings. Note: Time codes subject to change depending on dynamic ad insertion by the distributor. Chapters: 0:00 - Start 0:01:59 - Anthropic Releases New Model That’s Adept at Financial Research Anthropic releases Opus 4.6 with new ‘agent teams’ 0:10:00 - Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex 0:14:42 - Something Big Is Happening 0:33:25 - Can these Super Bowl ads make Americans love AI? 0:36:52 - Dunkin’ Donuts digitally de-aged ‘90s actors and I’m terrified 0:39:47 - AI.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70mn in biggest-ever website name deal 0:42:11 - OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT, draws early attention from advertisers and analysts 0:48:27 - Waymo Says Genie 3 Simulations Can Help Boost Robotaxi Rollout 0:53:30 - AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It 1:02:08 - As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts 1:04:48 - Meta is giving its AI slop feed an app of its own 1:06:53 - Google goes long with 100-year bond 1:09:18 - OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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