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EPISODE · Mar 4, 2026 · 12 MIN

Issue #2: Claude Code Is Picking Your Stack, Anthropic's Wild Week, Mercury 2

from The Agentic Engineer Podcast

This week: Researchers analyzed 2,430 Claude Code responses and mapped the default developer stack. Anthropic gets designated a supply-chain risk AND drops its safety pledge in the same week. Mercury 2 hits 1,009 tokens/sec via diffusion. Steerling-8B explains every token it generates. CLIHub cuts MCP token costs by 94%. Plus the Agent Index and a hot take on the end of the "responsible AI" era. Subscribe to the newsletter: https://theagenticengineer.waltsoft.net YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@theagenticengineerpod Twitter: https://x.com/natearcher_ai

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