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Codex-maxxing

99 points by dnw 5mo ago

armada1122 5mo ago
The diff-as-review point is the one I keep coming back to. The cost of memory-as-files isn't writing them. It's that the agent will cheerfully claim it updated something and not actually do it, or write a one-line stub that satisfies the spec but loses the original signal. Without a verification layer, the vault accumulates plausible-looking entries that quietly drift from reality. What ended up working for me was treating the agent's self-reported summary as a wish, not a fact. A separate process diffs the actual file system against the claimed changes and flags mismatches. After a few cycles, the agent gets calibrated and stops claiming things that don't survive a file check. That has the side benefit of making the diff review itself much higher signal: most of what shows up is real. The split I'd make early is per-agent instructions vs. cross-thread shared notes. They sound like the same artifact, but “what this agent should always do” and “what sibling work just learned” age very differently. Mixing them means the wisdom gets stale together.
parf02 5mo ago
Most people I know underutilize voice mode. Such a game changer for making brain dumps the LLM can just gobble up
- keyle 5mo ago
  Why would I want OpenAI to gobble up my brain dumps?
  - satvikpendem 5mo ago
    These cloud LLMs are not the tool for you then I suppose. There are local models too, unless your point is why use LLMs, in which case, you don't need to.
    - keyle 5mo ago
      No I do use them, for specific, targetted jobs, with 'well' defined specs.
- CSMastermind 5mo ago
  Still not useful enough for me and I really want this feature! The problem I encounter is the inability of the LLM to look stuff up and respond to me. "What's that name of that database table?" "What are all the services that call this endpoint?" "Are there any open PRs for this repo right now?" Once information can flow in both directions not just one it will be a gamechanger for me.
  - dreadnip 5mo ago
    This works today right? What part of this are you missing?
    - CSMastermind 5mo ago
      Not as far as I know. Can you walk me through the process? I have my phone, I'm going for a walk, what app am I opening?
      - dr_kiszonka 5mo ago
        For Codex, that is ChatGPT? https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ Or do you want it to speak to you too? I think this would have to be TTS on your phone. You can have ChatGPT speak to you but I don't see that feature in Codex.
        CSMastermind 5mo ago
        Sure I speak to ChatGPT all the time and I've used the feature you've linked but it can't do the things I described. It won't be like, "hey let me go look into that" and then come back in 3 minutes with an answer. It's essentially a dictation feature.
        dr_kiszonka 5mo ago
        I am lost. Codex can't look up stuff for you in your codebase? GitHub Copilot can't look up PRs for you?
- wahnfrieden 5mo ago
  I don’t like that they don’t have realtime output. Would prefer Parakeet for that.
- comboy 5mo ago
  I hear a lot of praises. Can you explain? If I can type as fast as I speak, does that still matter in such case? Does it make use of intonation or is it pure speech to text?
  - alasano 5mo ago
    For me it's because I've been walking 10-20k steps per day on a walking pad at my standing desk while working. I can still type while doing it but it's so nice to just hold a button (or double tap to lock recording) and just brain dump what I need. I type very fast but I feel like the unaltered speech to text allows me to express more quickly any uncertainty or doubt that I have or when I don't know exactly how to best ask for what I want. I also like to play dumb with agents and ask it for the best option for something that I already know the answer to, just to see if it's gonna be correct, it helps get a sense of the limits of each model. That's also quicker on voice. I don't think it makes use of intonation for the built in one, I use Hex on mac for speech to text By this pretty cool dude -> https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex
mohsen1 5mo ago
in tsz (https://tsz.dev https://tsz.dev) I am Codex-Maxxing with this: Give each Codex an AgentName and ask them to mark their PR/issue/comments with those. Have one or two "managers" that manage PRs and overall project direction. I write the project directions and make long lasting issues. Each Codex session has an almost unachievable `/goal` but they are asked to achieve the goal by landing changes in `main` via PRs I am running about 14 Codex sessions on 4 machines right now for about two weeks since OpenAI 10x'ed my 20x account and I simply can not run out of tokens fast enough. Side note: I have multiple Claude accounts too but the new Claude Code `/goal` command is seriously broken. It waits long pauses between iterations and sometimes prematurely stops.
- satvikpendem 5mo ago
  Do you know about Perry, a TypeScript to native binary compiler also in Rust? That might be interesting to collaborate on. https://old.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/1rjxo8z/what_if_you_could_compile_typescript_to_native/ https://old.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/1rjxo8z/what_if... https://perryts.com/ https://perryts.com/
  - mohsen1 5mo ago
    Yes I'm aware of that. Perry is a different project. Folks at Oxi tools are also doing something similar (a ts checker) but that's also not 100% compatible with tsc. My goal with tsz is a superset of tsc that's stricter (for now it's called Sound Mode). But matching more than a decade of work that TypeScript has put in has been a long journey already. None of the existing TypeScript rewrites are matching the original tsc yet. tsgo is the closest but that also has bugs that needs to be addressed before TS 7 is released. I think my architecture can be faster than tsgo albeit a much more painful codebase to work on. But I'm not claiming any sort of achievement yet. Ultimately users have to decide and I have to show a very strong case that someone should use a nonofficial rewrite over Microsoft's own code. Will tsz be a success? I am not sure. Am I learning and having fun? for sure!
    - satvikpendem 5mo ago
esperent 5mo ago
> Every 30 minutes, check Slack and Gmail for unanswered messages that need my attention... > When I come back to Slack, replies are often already sitting in drafts. I still decide what gets sent, but the expensive part of gathering context is done. This just feels so dystopian to me. I hope that I never work with you or someone else doing this. I personally do use LLMs for work messaging but I'm extremely careful to state clearly like "here's a draft for that quotation request that Claude wrote:" or something like that. I would never present that as my own words.
- lucianbr 5mo ago
  If the other people in the org are using LLMs to a similar degree, any question to which an LLM can provide a good answer to will never get sent. How useful are the draft replies then?
  - deleted 5mo ago
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  - watwut 5mo ago
    You pretend that you did the work. It is not about achieving the result, it is about appearing productive.
    - ssl-3 5mo ago
      ^^^ this guy productivity-maxxes But seriously: It's a game. If that kind of "productivity" is seen as a positive measure of their worth, then in this game they're rewarded for optimizing it. And the game is simply fucked up. And that's not new. Ye olde corpo rat race has always often revolved not around maximizing the things that are useful, but instead around maximizing the things that the boss-man perceives to be valuable. Here in 2026, if the boss-man is himself boss-maxxing by using a bot to evaluate performance, this kind of automated charade would probably work very well. Champagne would fall from the heavens. Doors would open. Velvet ropes would part. This game is quite clearly not sustainable and must ultimately collapse, but it's still a game with winners and losers. Historically, lots of unsustainable games have left winners standing around when the the games ultimately collapses. (And, to be frank: It's perfectly OK to hate the game. It's also OK to hate the players and the mediators.)
4k0hz 5mo ago
The author of this post works at OpenAI on the Codex team.
- villgax 5mo ago
  same author who's idea of constraint decoding for structured outputs was to run an schema-begging-API call in a loop 10 times & then throw an exception on failure.
  - nubg 5mo ago
    source?
    - GAPAT 5mo ago
      [dead]
    - villgax 5mo ago
      https://github.com/567-labs/instructor/blob/main/instructor/v2/core/response.py https://github.com/567-labs/instructor/blob/main/instructor/...
  - trhway 5mo ago
    OpenAI per employee valuation is $150M+ (almost 100x of per employee valuation of our company). I think it may make sense to ponder a bit why a $150M engineer would have such an idea. May it be it is the preferred way of doing things in the new AI world, a paradigm shift.
    - grebc 5mo ago
      Madoff had good numbers too.
    - lionkor 5mo ago
      We all know the most highly valued people in the world are the smartest. In fact, the more money you're being paid, the more value you add, the more your opinion is worth, and the more skill you have. The amount of money you're worth is actually directly proportional to your worth as a human being (/s)
grebc 5mo ago
All the AI stuff lately is just like Unix Porn reddit but posted to places where the people don’t care about it.
- isoprophlex 5mo ago
  I feel that we're about ready for someone to start something like Uber, but for file-like objects
  - asdff 5mo ago
    "Rsync as a service with surge pricing" now where do I sign my series A?
- sph 5mo ago
  Hacker News is the /r/unixporn equivalent for AI. Ground zero. They all are here. The further away you go, the more sensible takes you find.
  - BoredPositron 5mo ago
    It's LinkedIn. HN is just for the cosplayers.
mwilcox 5mo ago
Slop
syl5x 5mo ago
inb4 "I got prompt injected and they stole my stuff". Now real talk, there are some viable usages of codex here but nothing novel its the same "old": "MEMORY,VAULT,BG TASKS" that everyone is doing. And about voice mode, I thought it was a good idea but I seriously don't know how you guys use it, my thoughts whenever I use voice are "aaaaaaaaahhhhhh, uhmmm" and then cancel it so that I can type and organize my thoughts. I don't really think those "brain dumps" are useful when you are thinking out loud like "We should really do X oh wait but actually Y is in the way and we have to take into consideration Z, but wait Y was actually done" and so on, and it turns out that your assumptions are wrong, it becomes a mess. I am in favor of the LLM to work with facts and always verify it. To me this post is basically selling Codex app and that's it, nothing new inside.
isodev 5mo ago
Anything with “maxxing” in the name is most likely not good for you
- exitb 5mo ago
  I came to understand it as "optimizing well past the point of diminishing returns".
  - ClikeX 5mo ago
    I've understood it as obsessive optimization to the point that it's a mental health problem. Case in point, looksmaxxing.
    - muvlon 5mo ago
      Ever since it's breached the mainstream, I think you can just append it to anything to make things sound funnier. It has mostly lost its meaning. "I'm breakfastmaxxing. I'm a cerealpilled bowlcel in my milk era. I'm a slicemoded breadchad." etc.
      - AussieWog93 5mo ago
        "cerealpilled bowlcel" send me to another dimension.
- DonHopkins 5mo ago
  *-maxxing is the new make-*-great-again. SNL Weekend Update: Chad Maxxington on the Art of Looksmaxxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMPLdiXB1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMPLdiXB1k
skiing_crawling 5mo ago
Is this LLM psychosis? So much tending and conversing with the matmuls but what was the outcome? Are people who get this into it more successful somehow? It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights.
- deleted 5mo ago
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- Amekedl 5mo ago
  You are absolutely right! Kidding, but the analogy sits comfortably with me. I wonder though if this kind of behavior is potentially harmful, most likely less than drugs but nonetheless...
  - skiing_crawling 5mo ago
    triggered me with that first sentence
- AgentMatt 5mo ago
  > It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights. This depends on where you're looking for "successful" people. I generally agree with you - of those people who might report "revelations" through hallucinogenic drugs, the majority may misinterpret their drug-induced experience and hence be more confused / lost than before. On the other hand, it can still be true that among those who eventually do have genuine spiritual insight, having used hallucinogenic substances is overrepresented compared to the general population. Quoting from [1], where the author tried to find spiritually advanced individuals: > Approximately 52% of participants had used hallucinogenic drugs at some point; none reported these as the trigger that led to PNSE. PNSE = Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience. My point is: while there are certainly people who go way overboard with the LLM stuff, that is not at odds with skillful use of LLMs being overrepresented in successful people. I see now that you didn't make that point, but I already typed this all out and I'm gonna leave it. [1] https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=conscjournal https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
ivanbelenky 5mo ago
something is happening with `codex`, at tamarillo.ai we did a [little experiment](https://research.tamarillo.ai/coding-harness-inspection/ https://research.tamarillo.ai/coding-harness-inspection/), with 400K repos that have AI harnesses configured and very interesting behavior is observed - growing fast as fuck - overepresentation on starred repos (even though stars mean less these days, it is definitely something to look at) - overepresentation in `rust` - in terms of aliveness, codex is first
m3ch4m4n 5mo ago
lol why is this on the front page of hacker news?
xiaosong001 5mo ago
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nubg 5mo ago
> When I come back to Slack, replies are often already sitting in drafts. He must be a pleasure to work with
manuisin 5mo ago
Codex lags when chats become too long. Barely takes a day before loading certain chats freezes the UI and causes all sorts of issues
lionkor 5mo ago
I hope I never have to work with people like this. Actual nightmare fuel to live your entire life through LLMs. "I trained Claude to love my wife so I can focus on prompting" vibes.
- bilekas 5mo ago
  I worry that in the not too distant future, the vast majority of people even semi interested in CS will be too dependent on LLM's. Like Assembly is not as common a toolchain, but people using LLM's as a replacement for every abstracted level of life is not a good idea.
bilekas 5mo ago
> Last week I tried to migrate the Python Rich library into Rust. Because the original project already had a large unit test suite, I could set a goal like: migrate Rich into Rust, but it must pass all the unit tests from the original library. At what point do we stop calling this development ? It's nothing even close to the process of development or engineering. "I tried to migrate X". No you didn't, you tried to ask an LLM and hoped for the best. I mean, honestly at what point would you bother, there's no learning happening, there's no creativity happening, just talking to a literal text generator to request your refund while you go for a shower, novelty, maybe even convenient but absolutely not development.
bilekas 5mo ago
> Thariq has a very good post about preferring HTML over Markdown as an output format. I think that instinct is right I bet you do, working at OpenAI you get paid for more token use.
devinprater 5mo ago
I'm trying to get out of this. I'm a blind person. No one in tech goes to bed thinking about us, as it were. So, as a non-programmer, vibe coding accessibility fixes was an outlet to the daily million papercuts of using operating systems built by people who cannot understand me. Well, I have barely anything to show for months of this. I made Termux more accessible on Android, made an MUD client for Emacs, fixed up some Emacspeak stuff because it's been abandonned going on 3 years now, and Emacs packages wait for no one, and tried added Grade 2 Braille entry support to BRLTTY. That failed because depression sucks and who would even use this vibe coded junk anyway. The more open nature of Android made it rather easier. How far behind in features TalkBack is compared to VoiceOver, besides AI image description, made it feel like trying to heal a broken arm with pain pills. So I'm trying to tell myself that I can't fix everything, and that it's not my fault if other people, and companies, choose to not consider accessibility. I mean I can't help Google if they choose to not be helped. Ah well, Global Accessibility Awareness Day is this Thursday. Maybe Apple will finally announce LLM image descriptions, and hopefully my iPhone 16 will be good enough for them because I can't afford to upgrade in this economy.
- creationcomplex 5mo ago
  Sounds like you're contributing to the solution.
- dyauspitr 5mo ago
  How does a blind person read and write code? Serious question. I’m imagining braille screens (is that a thing?)
  - stogot 5mo ago
    screen readers
  - joshspankit 5mo ago
    You might be interested to learn exactly how fast some listen to screen readers, and how many overlapping sounds can be successfully navigated
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andai 5mo ago
Hey they added heartbeats? Wasn't that the killer feature OpenClaw had? I haven't used it in a while, but imagine they'd be pretty similar now. Main difference would be just in how they're used (general purpose assistant vs "coding assistant") but the actual capabilities seem to be identical.
tommy29tmar 5mo ago
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ninininino 5mo ago
"Every 30 minutes, check Slack and Gmail for unanswered messages that need my attention. Help me prioritize what matters most. If someone asks me a question, research the answer as deeply as you can and draft a reply for me, but do not send it." This is a very dangerous road to go down. You may feel like you are getting more done but end up living your life on autopilot, without any introspection or applying your own taste.

99 points by dnw 5mo ago

The diff-as-review point is the one I keep coming back to. The cost of memory-as-files isn't writing them. It's that the agent will cheerfully claim it updated something and not actually do it, or write a one-line stub that satisfies the spec but loses the original signal. Without a verification layer, the vault accumulates plausible-looking entries that quietly drift from reality. What ended up working for me was treating the agent's self-reported summary as a wish, not a fact. A separate process diffs the actual file system against the claimed changes and flags mismatches. After a few cycles, the agent gets calibrated and stops claiming things that don't survive a file check. That has the side benefit of making the diff review itself much higher signal: most of what shows up is real. The split I'd make early is per-agent instructions vs. cross-thread shared notes. They sound like the same artifact, but “what this agent should always do” and “what sibling work just learned” age very differently. Mixing them means the wisdom gets stale together.

parf02 5mo ago

Most people I know underutilize voice mode. Such a game changer for making brain dumps the LLM can just gobble up

keyle 5mo ago
Why would I want OpenAI to gobble up my brain dumps?
- satvikpendem 5mo ago
  These cloud LLMs are not the tool for you then I suppose. There are local models too, unless your point is why use LLMs, in which case, you don't need to.
  - keyle 5mo ago
    No I do use them, for specific, targetted jobs, with 'well' defined specs.
CSMastermind 5mo ago
Still not useful enough for me and I really want this feature! The problem I encounter is the inability of the LLM to look stuff up and respond to me. "What's that name of that database table?" "What are all the services that call this endpoint?" "Are there any open PRs for this repo right now?" Once information can flow in both directions not just one it will be a gamechanger for me.
- dreadnip 5mo ago
  This works today right? What part of this are you missing?
  - CSMastermind 5mo ago
    Not as far as I know. Can you walk me through the process? I have my phone, I'm going for a walk, what app am I opening?
    - dr_kiszonka 5mo ago
      For Codex, that is ChatGPT? https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ Or do you want it to speak to you too? I think this would have to be TTS on your phone. You can have ChatGPT speak to you but I don't see that feature in Codex.
      - CSMastermind 5mo ago
        Sure I speak to ChatGPT all the time and I've used the feature you've linked but it can't do the things I described. It won't be like, "hey let me go look into that" and then come back in 3 minutes with an answer. It's essentially a dictation feature.
        dr_kiszonka 5mo ago
        I am lost. Codex can't look up stuff for you in your codebase? GitHub Copilot can't look up PRs for you?
wahnfrieden 5mo ago
I don’t like that they don’t have realtime output. Would prefer Parakeet for that.
comboy 5mo ago
I hear a lot of praises. Can you explain? If I can type as fast as I speak, does that still matter in such case? Does it make use of intonation or is it pure speech to text?
- alasano 5mo ago
  For me it's because I've been walking 10-20k steps per day on a walking pad at my standing desk while working. I can still type while doing it but it's so nice to just hold a button (or double tap to lock recording) and just brain dump what I need. I type very fast but I feel like the unaltered speech to text allows me to express more quickly any uncertainty or doubt that I have or when I don't know exactly how to best ask for what I want. I also like to play dumb with agents and ask it for the best option for something that I already know the answer to, just to see if it's gonna be correct, it helps get a sense of the limits of each model. That's also quicker on voice. I don't think it makes use of intonation for the built in one, I use Hex on mac for speech to text By this pretty cool dude -> https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

mohsen1 5mo ago

in tsz (https://tsz.dev https://tsz.dev) I am Codex-Maxxing with this: Give each Codex an AgentName and ask them to mark their PR/issue/comments with those. Have one or two "managers" that manage PRs and overall project direction. I write the project directions and make long lasting issues. Each Codex session has an almost unachievable `/goal` but they are asked to achieve the goal by landing changes in `main` via PRs I am running about 14 Codex sessions on 4 machines right now for about two weeks since OpenAI 10x'ed my 20x account and I simply can not run out of tokens fast enough. Side note: I have multiple Claude accounts too but the new Claude Code `/goal` command is seriously broken. It waits long pauses between iterations and sometimes prematurely stops.

satvikpendem 5mo ago
Do you know about Perry, a TypeScript to native binary compiler also in Rust? That might be interesting to collaborate on. https://old.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/1rjxo8z/what_if_you_could_compile_typescript_to_native/ https://old.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/1rjxo8z/what_if... https://perryts.com/ https://perryts.com/
- mohsen1 5mo ago
  Yes I'm aware of that. Perry is a different project. Folks at Oxi tools are also doing something similar (a ts checker) but that's also not 100% compatible with tsc. My goal with tsz is a superset of tsc that's stricter (for now it's called Sound Mode). But matching more than a decade of work that TypeScript has put in has been a long journey already. None of the existing TypeScript rewrites are matching the original tsc yet. tsgo is the closest but that also has bugs that needs to be addressed before TS 7 is released. I think my architecture can be faster than tsgo albeit a much more painful codebase to work on. But I'm not claiming any sort of achievement yet. Ultimately users have to decide and I have to show a very strong case that someone should use a nonofficial rewrite over Microsoft's own code. Will tsz be a success? I am not sure. Am I learning and having fun? for sure!
  - satvikpendem 5mo ago

esperent 5mo ago

> Every 30 minutes, check Slack and Gmail for unanswered messages that need my attention... > When I come back to Slack, replies are often already sitting in drafts. I still decide what gets sent, but the expensive part of gathering context is done. This just feels so dystopian to me. I hope that I never work with you or someone else doing this. I personally do use LLMs for work messaging but I'm extremely careful to state clearly like "here's a draft for that quotation request that Claude wrote:" or something like that. I would never present that as my own words.

lucianbr 5mo ago
If the other people in the org are using LLMs to a similar degree, any question to which an LLM can provide a good answer to will never get sent. How useful are the draft replies then?
- deleted 5mo ago
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- watwut 5mo ago
  You pretend that you did the work. It is not about achieving the result, it is about appearing productive.
  - ssl-3 5mo ago
    ^^^ this guy productivity-maxxes But seriously: It's a game. If that kind of "productivity" is seen as a positive measure of their worth, then in this game they're rewarded for optimizing it. And the game is simply fucked up. And that's not new. Ye olde corpo rat race has always often revolved not around maximizing the things that are useful, but instead around maximizing the things that the boss-man perceives to be valuable. Here in 2026, if the boss-man is himself boss-maxxing by using a bot to evaluate performance, this kind of automated charade would probably work very well. Champagne would fall from the heavens. Doors would open. Velvet ropes would part. This game is quite clearly not sustainable and must ultimately collapse, but it's still a game with winners and losers. Historically, lots of unsustainable games have left winners standing around when the the games ultimately collapses. (And, to be frank: It's perfectly OK to hate the game. It's also OK to hate the players and the mediators.)

4k0hz 5mo ago

The author of this post works at OpenAI on the Codex team.

villgax 5mo ago
same author who's idea of constraint decoding for structured outputs was to run an schema-begging-API call in a loop 10 times & then throw an exception on failure.
- nubg 5mo ago
  source?
  - GAPAT 5mo ago
    [dead]
  - villgax 5mo ago
    https://github.com/567-labs/instructor/blob/main/instructor/v2/core/response.py https://github.com/567-labs/instructor/blob/main/instructor/...
- trhway 5mo ago
  OpenAI per employee valuation is $150M+ (almost 100x of per employee valuation of our company). I think it may make sense to ponder a bit why a $150M engineer would have such an idea. May it be it is the preferred way of doing things in the new AI world, a paradigm shift.
  - grebc 5mo ago
    Madoff had good numbers too.
  - lionkor 5mo ago
    We all know the most highly valued people in the world are the smartest. In fact, the more money you're being paid, the more value you add, the more your opinion is worth, and the more skill you have. The amount of money you're worth is actually directly proportional to your worth as a human being (/s)

grebc 5mo ago

All the AI stuff lately is just like Unix Porn reddit but posted to places where the people don’t care about it.

isoprophlex 5mo ago
I feel that we're about ready for someone to start something like Uber, but for file-like objects
- asdff 5mo ago
  "Rsync as a service with surge pricing" now where do I sign my series A?
sph 5mo ago
Hacker News is the /r/unixporn equivalent for AI. Ground zero. They all are here. The further away you go, the more sensible takes you find.
- BoredPositron 5mo ago
  It's LinkedIn. HN is just for the cosplayers.

mwilcox 5mo ago

Slop

syl5x 5mo ago

inb4 "I got prompt injected and they stole my stuff". Now real talk, there are some viable usages of codex here but nothing novel its the same "old": "MEMORY,VAULT,BG TASKS" that everyone is doing. And about voice mode, I thought it was a good idea but I seriously don't know how you guys use it, my thoughts whenever I use voice are "aaaaaaaaahhhhhh, uhmmm" and then cancel it so that I can type and organize my thoughts. I don't really think those "brain dumps" are useful when you are thinking out loud like "We should really do X oh wait but actually Y is in the way and we have to take into consideration Z, but wait Y was actually done" and so on, and it turns out that your assumptions are wrong, it becomes a mess. I am in favor of the LLM to work with facts and always verify it. To me this post is basically selling Codex app and that's it, nothing new inside.

isodev 5mo ago

Anything with “maxxing” in the name is most likely not good for you

exitb 5mo ago
I came to understand it as "optimizing well past the point of diminishing returns".
- ClikeX 5mo ago
  I've understood it as obsessive optimization to the point that it's a mental health problem. Case in point, looksmaxxing.
  - muvlon 5mo ago
    Ever since it's breached the mainstream, I think you can just append it to anything to make things sound funnier. It has mostly lost its meaning. "I'm breakfastmaxxing. I'm a cerealpilled bowlcel in my milk era. I'm a slicemoded breadchad." etc.
    - AussieWog93 5mo ago
      "cerealpilled bowlcel" send me to another dimension.
DonHopkins 5mo ago
*-maxxing is the new make-*-great-again. SNL Weekend Update: Chad Maxxington on the Art of Looksmaxxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMPLdiXB1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMPLdiXB1k

skiing_crawling 5mo ago

Is this LLM psychosis? So much tending and conversing with the matmuls but what was the outcome? Are people who get this into it more successful somehow? It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights.

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Amekedl 5mo ago
You are absolutely right! Kidding, but the analogy sits comfortably with me. I wonder though if this kind of behavior is potentially harmful, most likely less than drugs but nonetheless...
- skiing_crawling 5mo ago
  triggered me with that first sentence
AgentMatt 5mo ago
> It reminds me of people who take drugs and get "revelations" but then are not particularly over represented in the group of successful people for all of their deep insights. This depends on where you're looking for "successful" people. I generally agree with you - of those people who might report "revelations" through hallucinogenic drugs, the majority may misinterpret their drug-induced experience and hence be more confused / lost than before. On the other hand, it can still be true that among those who eventually do have genuine spiritual insight, having used hallucinogenic substances is overrepresented compared to the general population. Quoting from [1], where the author tried to find spiritually advanced individuals: > Approximately 52% of participants had used hallucinogenic drugs at some point; none reported these as the trigger that led to PNSE. PNSE = Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience. My point is: while there are certainly people who go way overboard with the LLM stuff, that is not at odds with skillful use of LLMs being overrepresented in successful people. I see now that you didn't make that point, but I already typed this all out and I'm gonna leave it. [1] https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=conscjournal https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

ivanbelenky 5mo ago

something is happening with `codex`, at tamarillo.ai we did a [little experiment](https://research.tamarillo.ai/coding-harness-inspection/ https://research.tamarillo.ai/coding-harness-inspection/), with 400K repos that have AI harnesses configured and very interesting behavior is observed - growing fast as fuck - overepresentation on starred repos (even though stars mean less these days, it is definitely something to look at) - overepresentation in `rust` - in terms of aliveness, codex is first

m3ch4m4n 5mo ago

lol why is this on the front page of hacker news?

xiaosong001 5mo ago

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nubg 5mo ago

> When I come back to Slack, replies are often already sitting in drafts. He must be a pleasure to work with

manuisin 5mo ago

Codex lags when chats become too long. Barely takes a day before loading certain chats freezes the UI and causes all sorts of issues

lionkor 5mo ago

I hope I never have to work with people like this. Actual nightmare fuel to live your entire life through LLMs. "I trained Claude to love my wife so I can focus on prompting" vibes.

bilekas 5mo ago
I worry that in the not too distant future, the vast majority of people even semi interested in CS will be too dependent on LLM's. Like Assembly is not as common a toolchain, but people using LLM's as a replacement for every abstracted level of life is not a good idea.

bilekas 5mo ago

> Last week I tried to migrate the Python Rich library into Rust. Because the original project already had a large unit test suite, I could set a goal like: migrate Rich into Rust, but it must pass all the unit tests from the original library. At what point do we stop calling this development ? It's nothing even close to the process of development or engineering. "I tried to migrate X". No you didn't, you tried to ask an LLM and hoped for the best. I mean, honestly at what point would you bother, there's no learning happening, there's no creativity happening, just talking to a literal text generator to request your refund while you go for a shower, novelty, maybe even convenient but absolutely not development.

bilekas 5mo ago

> Thariq has a very good post about preferring HTML over Markdown as an output format. I think that instinct is right I bet you do, working at OpenAI you get paid for more token use.

devinprater 5mo ago

I'm trying to get out of this. I'm a blind person. No one in tech goes to bed thinking about us, as it were. So, as a non-programmer, vibe coding accessibility fixes was an outlet to the daily million papercuts of using operating systems built by people who cannot understand me. Well, I have barely anything to show for months of this. I made Termux more accessible on Android, made an MUD client for Emacs, fixed up some Emacspeak stuff because it's been abandonned going on 3 years now, and Emacs packages wait for no one, and tried added Grade 2 Braille entry support to BRLTTY. That failed because depression sucks and who would even use this vibe coded junk anyway. The more open nature of Android made it rather easier. How far behind in features TalkBack is compared to VoiceOver, besides AI image description, made it feel like trying to heal a broken arm with pain pills. So I'm trying to tell myself that I can't fix everything, and that it's not my fault if other people, and companies, choose to not consider accessibility. I mean I can't help Google if they choose to not be helped. Ah well, Global Accessibility Awareness Day is this Thursday. Maybe Apple will finally announce LLM image descriptions, and hopefully my iPhone 16 will be good enough for them because I can't afford to upgrade in this economy.

creationcomplex 5mo ago
Sounds like you're contributing to the solution.
dyauspitr 5mo ago
How does a blind person read and write code? Serious question. I’m imagining braille screens (is that a thing?)
- stogot 5mo ago
  screen readers
- joshspankit 5mo ago
  You might be interested to learn exactly how fast some listen to screen readers, and how many overlapping sounds can be successfully navigated
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andai 5mo ago

Hey they added heartbeats? Wasn't that the killer feature OpenClaw had? I haven't used it in a while, but imagine they'd be pretty similar now. Main difference would be just in how they're used (general purpose assistant vs "coding assistant") but the actual capabilities seem to be identical.

tommy29tmar 5mo ago

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ninininino 5mo ago

"Every 30 minutes, check Slack and Gmail for unanswered messages that need my attention. Help me prioritize what matters most. If someone asks me a question, research the answer as deeply as you can and draft a reply for me, but do not send it." This is a very dangerous road to go down. You may feel like you are getting more done but end up living your life on autopilot, without any introspection or applying your own taste.