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You may want to look over this thread from cperciva: https://x.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156 https://x.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156 I too

You may want to look over this thread from cperciva: https://x.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156 https://x.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156 I too tried Codex and found it similarly hard to control over long contexts. It ended up coding an app that spit out millions of tiny files which were technically smaller than the original files it was supposed to optimize, except due to there being millions of them, actual hard drive usage was 18x larger. It seemed to work well until a certain point, and I suspect that point was context window overflow / compaction. Happy to provide you with the full session if it helps. I’ll give Codex another shot with 1M. It just seemed like cperciva’s case and my own might be similar in that once the context window overflows (or refuses to fill) Codex seems to lose something essential, whereas Claude keeps it. What that thing is, I have no idea, but I’m hoping longer context will preserve it.

woadwarrior01 8mo ago
Please don't post links with tracking parameters (t=jQb...). https://xcancel.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156 https://xcancel.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156
- sillysaurusx 8mo ago
  Haha. This was the second time in like a year that I’ve posted a Twitter link, and the second time someone complained. Okay, I’ll try to remove those before posting, and I’ll edit this one out. Feels like a losing battle, but hey, the audience is usually right.
  - woadwarrior01 8mo ago
    I'm sorry, but it's my pet peeve. If you're on iOS/macOS I built a 100% free and privacy-friendly app to get rid of tracking parameters from hundreds of different websites, not just X/Twitter. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-links-qr-code-reader/id6747395062 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-links-qr-code-reader/id6...
    - sillysaurusx 8mo ago
      It works on iOS? That’s cool. I’ll give it a go.
    - pmarreck 8mo ago
      So what is your motivation for doing this, incidentally? Can you be explicit about it? I am genuinely curious. Especially when it’s to the point of, you know, nagging/policing people to do it the way you’d prefer, when you could just redirect your router requests from x.com to xcancel.com
      - woadwarrior01 8mo ago
        It's not particularly about x.com, hundreds of site like x, youtube, facebook, linkedin, tiktok etc surreptitious add tracking parameters to their links. The iOS Messages app even hides these tracking parameters. I don't like being surreptitiously tracked online and judging by the success of my free app, there are millions of people like me.
        pmarreck 8mo ago
        so, since these companies have to comply with removing PII, is the worst thing that could happen to me, that I get ads that are more likely to be interesting to me? i’m not being facetious, honest question, especially considering ads are the only thing paying these people these days
        taneq 8mo ago
        The worst thing that could happen is that you get caught in some government dragnet based on your historical viewing data and get disappeared because (as is the nature of dragnet searches) no matter how innocent you are you still look guilty.
        marcus_holmes 8mo ago
        The more data they have on you, the more valuable that data is to a third party. So they sell your data to someone else, who then phones you based on your known deep interest in <whatever it was that tracked you>. Or spams you. Or messages you. Or whatever method they think will most get your attention. If you don't give them that information, they can't sell it, and the buyers won't annoy you. It's not that the ads you get are more interesting, it's that you get more ads because they think they know more about you.
FrankBooth 8mo ago
What’s the connection with context size in that thread? It seems more like an instruction following problem.
- sillysaurusx 8mo ago
  It occurred to me that searching 196 .c files was a context window issue, but maybe there’s something else going on. Either way, Codex could behave better.
- cperciva 8mo ago
  Yeah, I would definitely characterize it as an instruction following problem. After a few more round trips I got it to admit that "my earlier passes leaned heavily on build/tests + targeted reads, which can miss many “deep” bugs that only show up under specific conditions or with careful semantic review" and then asking it to "Please do a careful semantic review of files, one by one." started it on actually reviewing code. Mind you, the bugs it reported were mostly bogus. But at least I was eventually able to convince it to try.

woadwarrior01 8mo ago

Please don't post links with tracking parameters (t=jQb...). https://xcancel.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156 https://xcancel.com/cperciva/status/2029645027358495156

sillysaurusx 8mo ago
Haha. This was the second time in like a year that I’ve posted a Twitter link, and the second time someone complained. Okay, I’ll try to remove those before posting, and I’ll edit this one out. Feels like a losing battle, but hey, the audience is usually right.
- woadwarrior01 8mo ago
  I'm sorry, but it's my pet peeve. If you're on iOS/macOS I built a 100% free and privacy-friendly app to get rid of tracking parameters from hundreds of different websites, not just X/Twitter. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-links-qr-code-reader/id6747395062 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clean-links-qr-code-reader/id6...
  - sillysaurusx 8mo ago
    It works on iOS? That’s cool. I’ll give it a go.
  - pmarreck 8mo ago
    So what is your motivation for doing this, incidentally? Can you be explicit about it? I am genuinely curious. Especially when it’s to the point of, you know, nagging/policing people to do it the way you’d prefer, when you could just redirect your router requests from x.com to xcancel.com
    - woadwarrior01 8mo ago
      It's not particularly about x.com, hundreds of site like x, youtube, facebook, linkedin, tiktok etc surreptitious add tracking parameters to their links. The iOS Messages app even hides these tracking parameters. I don't like being surreptitiously tracked online and judging by the success of my free app, there are millions of people like me.
      - pmarreck 8mo ago
        so, since these companies have to comply with removing PII, is the worst thing that could happen to me, that I get ads that are more likely to be interesting to me? i’m not being facetious, honest question, especially considering ads are the only thing paying these people these days
        taneq 8mo ago
        The worst thing that could happen is that you get caught in some government dragnet based on your historical viewing data and get disappeared because (as is the nature of dragnet searches) no matter how innocent you are you still look guilty.
        marcus_holmes 8mo ago
        The more data they have on you, the more valuable that data is to a third party. So they sell your data to someone else, who then phones you based on your known deep interest in <whatever it was that tracked you>. Or spams you. Or messages you. Or whatever method they think will most get your attention. If you don't give them that information, they can't sell it, and the buyers won't annoy you. It's not that the ads you get are more interesting, it's that you get more ads because they think they know more about you.

FrankBooth 8mo ago

What’s the connection with context size in that thread? It seems more like an instruction following problem.

sillysaurusx 8mo ago
It occurred to me that searching 196 .c files was a context window issue, but maybe there’s something else going on. Either way, Codex could behave better.
cperciva 8mo ago
Yeah, I would definitely characterize it as an instruction following problem. After a few more round trips I got it to admit that "my earlier passes leaned heavily on build/tests + targeted reads, which can miss many “deep” bugs that only show up under specific conditions or with careful semantic review" and then asking it to "Please do a careful semantic review of files, one by one." started it on actually reviewing code. Mind you, the bugs it reported were mostly bogus. But at least I was eventually able to convince it to try.