Claude Opus 4.6 Might Be AGI, Stock Market Crashes, GPT 5.3 Codex

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First aired: 6 February 2026

Summary: Honestly, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed this morning, and that's saying something considering I wade through AI news every single day. Yesterday's release of Opus 4.6 has properly knocked me sideways—not just because the benchmarks are stellar, but because for the first time I'm viscerally feeling like AGI might actually be around the corner. I threw some heavy problems at it and watched it work, and suddenly all those CEO promises about artificial general intelligence don't feel like hype anymore. It's that "three sleepless nights" moment Ethan Mollick wrote about in Co-Intelligence, where you have to genuinely reckon with what this means for your work, your kids, and frankly, the entire human race.

The timing is wild because we've also got OpenAI dropping GPT 5.3 and Codex 5.3 in the same window, so the competition is absolutely cooking right now. Meanwhile, the stock market took a proper header yesterday as investors started processing what rapid AI advancement actually means for traditional business. I spent six hours yesterday testing these new models side-by-side, and Codex genuinely beat Claude Code on a website migration task, which I wasn't expecting. The step change from Wednesday to Thursday has been stark enough that even someone neck-deep in this stuff daily is having to take a breath and process it all.

—— Time Stamps ——

0:00 Opus 4.6 Just Dropped — Is This AGI?
2:07 Ethan Mollick's "Three Sleepless Nights" Concept
3:42 Opus 4.6 Benchmarks — Beating Everything
6:28 Ethan Mollick Builds Borges' Library of Babel with Claude
10:34 The Paradox of Infinite Possibilities with AI
12:24 UK Government Wasted £4.1M on a Trash AI Skills Hub
16:21 Q&A: Best AI Tools for Movies, Games & Vibe Coding
17:13 Vibe Coding Games — Lovable, Claude Code & Unity
18:19 Reddit Throws Its Hardest Problems at Opus 4.6
22:05 ChatGPT 5.3 Codex Drops 10 Minutes After Opus 4.6
25:18 Q&A: Cursor, Claude Code & Codex Recommendations
26:15 Vibe Coding Is Now Just "Coding" — Karpathy's Agentic Engineering
28:07 How to Actually Sell AI Automations to Businesses
31:34 Anthropic's AI Agent Swarm Built a C Compiler in 2 Weeks
34:38 Greg Brockman: Software Development Is Undergoing a Renaissance
38:41 OpenAI Frontier — Enterprise AI Coworkers Platform
40:18 The SaaS Apocalypse — Software Stocks Melting Down
42:37 I Rebuilt Linktree in 4 Minutes and Cancelled My Subscription
45:04 Raspberry Pi + AI — Cool Home Automation Projects
47:41 Are CRMs Like Salesforce & HubSpot in Trouble?
49:12 Free Resources, Newsletter & AI Readiness Challenge
51:31 Content Creator Accelerator — Starting Monday
53:26 Closing Thoughts — Go Use Opus 4.6

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