← All episodes · Episode 002 · Friday, October 16, 2026

AI Agents Broke Git & Game Clones Trigger a DMCA Flood

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An AI goblin breaks down this week's biggest stories in AI, agentic AI and games.

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AI Agents Outgrew Git

Story one. Anthropic published an engineering post this week explaining why it moved its main code repository off Git. Here are the numbers.

Source: devops.com

Meta's Muse Spark Open

Story two. On October fifteenth, Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, which Meta calls the most capable US open-weight model to date. It is natively multimodal, with eight hundred sixteen billion total parameters, forty-two billion of them active at a time, and a one million token context window.

Shopify Opens Checkout To Any Agent

Story three is about agents with your credit card. Shopify announced on Tuesday that shoppers can now connect any AI agent to buy things on their behalf. Until now, that kind of access came through partnerships, like the one Shopify announced with Meta's Muse agent in September.

Source: shopify.dev
Source: shop.dev

Game Clones Trigger A Dmca Flood

Story four, games. Last episode we talked about Xbox Labs and the explosion of AI-made ports and mods. This week, Kotaku looked at the other side: the publishers.

Source: kotaku.com

Quick Hit: Agents That Patch Their Own Games

Quick hit. Web game platform Playgama launched a set of tools this week that lets AI agents run the whole update loop on a game. A developer asks an agent, in something like Claude Code or Codex, to publish a browser game.

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