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Any chance you could write up a blog post on your Codex experience(s)? Sounds really interesting.

stavros 1y ago
I wrote a long comment but refreshed by accident before I could post it, so here we go again: I'll write a post when I finish Pine Town, but I don't know what I could say about Codex in it. I think a big issue is that I don't know what others don't know, as the way I use LLMs (obviously) feels natural to me. Here are some tips that you may or may not already know: * Reset the context as often as you can. LLMs like short contexts, so when you reach a point where the information has converged into something (e.g. the LLM has done a lot of work and you want it to change one of the details), reset the context, summarize what you want, and continue. * Give the LLM small tasks that are logically coherent. Don't give it large, sprawling, open-ended tasks, but also don't give it chunks so tiny that it doesn't know what they're for. * Explain the problem in detail, and don't dictate a solution. The LLM, like a person, needs to know why it's doing what it's doing, and maybe it can recommend better solutions. * Ask it to challenge you. If you try to shoehorn the LLM too much, it might go off the rails trying to satisfy an impossible request. I've had a few times where it did crazy things because I didn't realize the thing I was asking for wasn't actually possible with the way the project was set up. That's what I can think of off the top of my head, but maybe I'll write a general "how to work with LLMs" post. I don't think there's anything specifically different about Codex, and there must be a million such posts already, so I don't know if anyone will find value in the above... For me, it Just Worked™, but maybe that's just because I stumbled upon some specific technique that most people don't use.
- indigodaddy 1y ago
  Awesome! Looking forward to an in depth post once you get pinetown in order
- tux1968 1y ago
  > I wrote a long comment but refreshed by accident before I could post it... So I was going to write a commiseration and a screed about what a colossal UI failure this is, that you can so easily lose such work. But FWIW, before posting I searched to see if there are any extensions to address this. There are several for Chrome, but on Firefox I ended up trying "Textarea Cache", and sure enough if you close the page, and reopen it later, you can click the icon to recover your words.
  - stavros 1y ago
    Thank you! I'll install that, though this was on mobile where extensions don't work because walled gardens :(

I wrote a long comment but refreshed by accident before I could post it, so here we go again: I'll write a post when I finish Pine Town, but I don't know what I could say about Codex in it. I think a big issue is that I don't know what others don't know, as the way I use LLMs (obviously) feels natural to me. Here are some tips that you may or may not already know: * Reset the context as often as you can. LLMs like short contexts, so when you reach a point where the information has converged into something (e.g. the LLM has done a lot of work and you want it to change one of the details), reset the context, summarize what you want, and continue. * Give the LLM small tasks that are logically coherent. Don't give it large, sprawling, open-ended tasks, but also don't give it chunks so tiny that it doesn't know what they're for. * Explain the problem in detail, and don't dictate a solution. The LLM, like a person, needs to know why it's doing what it's doing, and maybe it can recommend better solutions. * Ask it to challenge you. If you try to shoehorn the LLM too much, it might go off the rails trying to satisfy an impossible request. I've had a few times where it did crazy things because I didn't realize the thing I was asking for wasn't actually possible with the way the project was set up. That's what I can think of off the top of my head, but maybe I'll write a general "how to work with LLMs" post. I don't think there's anything specifically different about Codex, and there must be a million such posts already, so I don't know if anyone will find value in the above... For me, it Just Worked™, but maybe that's just because I stumbled upon some specific technique that most people don't use.

indigodaddy 1y ago
Awesome! Looking forward to an in depth post once you get pinetown in order
tux1968 1y ago
> I wrote a long comment but refreshed by accident before I could post it... So I was going to write a commiseration and a screed about what a colossal UI failure this is, that you can so easily lose such work. But FWIW, before posting I searched to see if there are any extensions to address this. There are several for Chrome, but on Firefox I ended up trying "Textarea Cache", and sure enough if you close the page, and reopen it later, you can click the icon to recover your words.
- stavros 1y ago
  Thank you! I'll install that, though this was on mobile where extensions don't work because walled gardens :(