EPISODE · May 29, 2026 · 26 MIN
Barely Possible - 2026-05-30
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[Barely Possible 2026-05-30] Today's episode: • Claude Opus 4.8 ships: SWE-bench Pro 64.3→69.2, Terminal-Bench 66.1→74.6, but GPT-5.5 still leads Terminal-Bench at 78.2. • Anthropic's Series H closes at $965B, more than doubling February's $380B, passing OpenAI on paper with $47B run-rate revenue. • Bun's Jared Sumner ported Zig to Rust in 11 days via Claude Code sub-agents: 750K lines, 99.8% tests passing, Opus orchestrating. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_89&feed_source=rss&episode_id=89 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-30/podcast-episode-2026-05-30.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-30/2026-05-30-notes.md
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[Barely Possible 2026-05-30] Today's episode: • Claude Opus 4.8 ships: SWE-bench Pro 64.3→69.2, Terminal-Bench 66.1→74.6, but GPT-5.5 still leads Terminal-Bench at 78.2. • Anthropic's Series H closes at $965B, more than doubling February's $380B, passing OpenAI on paper with $47B run-rate revenue. • Bun's Jared Sumner ported Zig to Rust in 11 days via Claude Code sub-agents: 750K lines, 99.8% tests passing, Opus orchestrating. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_89&feed_source=rss&episode_id=89 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-30/podcast-episode-2026-05-30.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-30/2026-05-30-notes.md
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