This is Execution Over Everything. We take AI papers, blog posts, and big ideas that sound incredible on X… and we run them headfirst into reality. Not demos. Not vibes. Not one-shot prompts.

In this episode, we conduct a ruthlessly technical audit of the simultaneous launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6. We move past the benchmarks to answer the expensive questions:

• The March 31 Mandate: Is OpenAI’s internal deadline for "Agent First" development a breakthrough or an operational disaster?

• The GB200 Trap: Is the hardware-software co-design a legit efficiency gain or a high-friction vendor lock-in strategy?

• Workflow Depth: Why 2.09x token efficiency doesn't matter if your agent crashes at step 10.

• The Clean Room Myth: Deconstructing Anthropic’s C-compiler story—is it creation or just memorized reconstruction?

If you’re building AI infrastructure, this is your reality check on context economy, retries and churn, and the verification boundary.

The intelligence isn’t the bottleneck. Repetition is.

• 00:00 — Alt Show Intro

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  00:40 — The March 31 Mandate: Agents as the "Tool of First Resort"

  
  

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  02:10 — Audit: 2.09x Token Efficiency vs. Workflow Depth

  
  

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  05:30 — The GB200 Trap: Hardware-Software Co-Design Audit

  
  

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  08:20 — Claude Opus 4.6: The Clean Room C-Compiler Reality Check

  
  

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  11:45 — Adaptive Thinking & The Black Box of Latency

  
  

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  15:00 — The Just-Make-It Ladder: Shifting from Doing to Directing

  
  

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  17:45 — The Final Audit: Verification Boundaries & Technical Debt

  
  

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  18:45 — Closing Thought: Repetition is the Bottleneck