SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach

About this episode

The episode discusses major developments in software engineering, including AI coding trends, a supply chain attack, and the emergence of OpenCode.

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this episode, they cover the resurgence of ARM and CPUs as serious compute infrastructure for running local AI agents, a supply chain attack on LiteLLM that exposed API credentials across thousands of developer environments, and the arrival of OpenCode as a fully open source alternative to Claude Code and Codex. They also discuss the diverging strategies of Anthropic and OpenAI following the Pentagon contract controversy, and what it signals about where each company is positioning itself in the enterprise and government markets. Gregor and Sean then dive deep into what the AI coding boom actually means for shipping software. Finally, they highlight standout threads from Hacker News, including Doom running entirely over DNS, the psychology of seafoam green in Cold War-era control rooms, a Tesla Model 3 computer assembled from salvaged crash components, and Apple’s quiet discontinuation of the Mac Pro. Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, having previously been a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Gregor Vand, Sean Falconer

Topics covered

• AI coding
• software engineering news
• supply chain attacks
• open source software
• ARM and CPUs
• Hacker News highlights

Keywords

• AI agents
• LiteLLM breach
• OpenCode
• ARM CPUs
• software shipping
• Hacker News
• Pentagon contract

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LiteLLM, OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude Code, Codex

Products: Tesla Model 3

Books & works: Doom

Places: Silicon Valley, Singapore

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