IM 892: Pants-based Benchmarks - GitHub's Agent Revolution

GitHub's developer relations VP, Martin Woodward, reveals just how dramatically AI agents are reshaping who codes, what gets built, and why open source maintainers are overwhelmed by a tidal wave of pull requests. If you thought Copilot was disruptive, wait until you hear what's coming next. - Gemini 4 Argon begins rolling out in Gemini app and Antigravity, but only if you pay - (11) Andrej Karpathy on X: "Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is \*widening\*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come" / X - AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter - Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports - Muse Wonder - OpenAI's math breakthrough points beyond math - GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence - Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow's strikes on Kyiv data centers - Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy - Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI - Nicolas Cage Says He's 'Probably Not' Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for 'Spider-Noir' - Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting - REA — Reverse Engineering for Your Coding Agent - Cupertino - Zuck's beer face **Hosts:** Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau **Guest:** Martin Woodward Download or subscribe to *Intelligent Machines* at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. **Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts!** Support what you love and get ad-free audio *and* video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit **Sponsors:** - originhq.com/intelligentmachines - outshift.com - helixsleep.com/machines