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May 18, 2026 1 hr 22 min

Skill Issue: Agentic Coding Tools, Circular Funding Deals, Double Standards in Content Policy

from Fast & Broken Hosted by Carly Rector

Today's show is cohosted by Oz Brown! Oz is nontraditional software engineer who went through bootcamp at Amazon after a history doing creative work, including voice acting, and customer support, including for Xbox. We talk about the philosophy and current state of agentic coding tools, the Anthropic-SpaceX deal and the state of circular funding, and the double standards in platform content policy and copyright enforcement. -- Show Notes: State of AI coding tools https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026 Are software engineers' brains rotting https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/ Circular finance https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/ https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex https://www.platformer.news/did-xai-just-concede-the-ai-race/ Copyright/content policies and inconsistent enforcement Kickstarter: https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-nsfw-ban-story/

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