Episode 64: Claude Code 2.1.165, Microsoft's MAI Coding Model Family, and the Agent Infrastructure Project Radar

About this episode

The episode discusses the latest updates in coding models and agent infrastructure, including Claude Code 2.1.165 and Microsoft's MAI family.

Claude Code 2.1.165 is the latest npm `latest` as of June 5, following 2.1.163 and 2.1.164 — all bug-fix and reliability releases that clean up background sessions, plugin hooks, skill syntax, and Windows path handling. Microsoft dropped a seven-model MAI family at Build 2026 on June 2, with MAI-Code-1-Flash as the headline: a 5B-parameter coding model trained on GitHub Copilot production harnesses, scoring 51% on SWE-Bench Pro and 60% leaner on tokens than comparable models. The episode also covers the GitHub Project Radar around agent memory, code graphs, and MCP tooling that serve the local coding-agent stack. Show notes: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/podcasts/episode-64/

People in this episode

Hosts: Nova, Alloy

Topics covered

• coding models
• software development
• agent infrastructure
• Microsoft MAI
• GitHub Copilot
• project radar

Keywords

• Claude Code
• MAI Coding Model
• Microsoft
• GitHub
• software engineering
• coding agents
• project radar

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, GitHub

Products: Claude Code 2.1.165, MAI-Code-1-Flash

Books & works: SWE-Bench Pro

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