AI NEWS: Stripe's Minions, Distillation Attacks on Claude, Cloudflare's Code Mode
Shane and Abhi break down the biggest AI news from the past few days. Anthropic identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. Anthropic also released a groundbreaking report analyzing millions of AI agent interactions using Claude. Stripe is shipping 1,300+ AI-generated PRs per week with their Minions system. Code Mode for MCP is becoming a standard part of the MCP ecosystem, and we cover skills benchmarks, trajectory explorer for agent traces, Vercel AI Gateway video support, and more.
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Episode Transcript
Intro
Anthropic: Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax
Anthropic's Agent Report: 50% Software Engineering, Other Domains Emerging
Claude Code Security in Research Preview
Prompt Auto-Caching with Claude
Stripe Minions: 1,300 PRs/Week
Code Mode for MCP (99.9% Token Reduction)
Amp: The Coding Agent Is Dead
Skills Beat Size: Smaller Models with High-Quality Skills
Quick Hits: Trajectory Explorer, Vercel AI Gateway, Taalas, Google Photoshoot
GitHub Star Party: Superpowers Framework
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