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I read this as a bad sign for Anthropic. Relying yet again on more hype instead of improving products. OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, whether
by redanddead 5mo ago
I read this as a bad sign for Anthropic. Relying yet again on more hype instead of improving products.
OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, whether through luck or structure. The “no-name” guys have actual taste. I love that. I don’t care that they’re no-names.
I don’t know Karpathy personally, I won’t speak bad about a man I don’t know. I hope he makes CC better. I just read this as hype. My point is that there’s nothing he has that an empowered no-name product manager doesn’t. It’s like Alex Wang at Meta. That acq didn’t redeem Meta. They actually lost LeCun. Where’s Llama today?
Regardless of what Anthropic’s share price is, OpenAI has been fucking killing it recently. I don’t take particular pleasure in saying that, i’ve been a google and gemini guy for years
My lens is meritocratic. My experience is as an extremely heavy user of both company’s full suite of products in the range of 5 digits per month. My interest is better products not hype.
- j_bum 5mo agoCurious what you mean by killing it? Products? Model quality?
- redanddead 5mo agoDude, both! Codex is going to eat Openclaw… i don’t love saying that. What codex is a few steps away from doing is changing fundamentally a lot of workflows. Remote codex with their computer use is basically you at your computer doing things, 24/7. Then they added gpt images 2.0 what codex can do, in a few more product iterations, is show you visually side by side “would you prefer this (A) or that (B)” in a series of questions. This is what some open source researchers have been up to. That’s no longer guessing. I’m not trying to hype a company i have no stake in, but they’ve been killing it. It’s extremely compute intensive, but also very satisfying.
- scottyah 5mo agoCodex and openclaw are both "owned" by openai, and most of the features have been in claude code for awhile now.
- redanddead 5mo agoTo be fair, Claude Dispatch was really cool. I had to wait a good 3 weeks for Codex to come out with remote
- misiti3780 5mo agoreally - what am i missing?
- redanddead 5mo agoIt just feels like more hype instead of product focus. Example 1, just from top of my mind, Composer 2.5 released today. Go look at their benchmark. Composer 2.5 and Opus 4.7 ranked around the same, meanwhile gpt-5.5 was miles ahead. You wouldn’t have caught me dead using a gpt model 2 years ago
- vondur 5mo agoIt feels like these companies are constantly going back and forth on who has the best product constantly. It's such a dynamic time with how fast they are both working.
- felixgallo 5mo agoOut here in the actual demonstrated world, OpenAI has been leaking quality people like a sieve, has not yet demonstrated anything remotely similar to 'taste', and is led by a sociopath (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...), so I think you can rest easy.
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- sigmar 5mo ago>OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, the guys have actual taste. Can you cite specifics? "I won't speak bad about someone, but also won't speak good about others" resulted in a comment that seems to contribute nothing
- redanddead 5mo agoI judge them from a meritocratic lens. I’m hoping Karpathy will make Claude Code better, in the meantime I’m super happy seeing a small product manager like Tibo fucking crushing it on Codex
- woah 5mo agoWhere are you following the comings and goings of small no name product managers like it's a baseball team?
- redanddead 5mo agoHahaha wdym? Where have you been dude? Joking aside, there are small communities pushing codex and AI to the bleeding edge of what's possible. Here I'll give you an example. The last few updates from Boris at CC have been tweaks to the system prompt to make it use less compute, effectively making the system dumber, making it tell you to go to bed. I mean come on! Tibo has been impressing me, bc they're building the things these small communities are building. One of the things these bleeding edge guys and girls have been working on is a /goal feature, essentially ralph loops. Codex released it as a feature the other day. I can't help but be impressed. As an ex-pm, this is product management. Then you take a look at what the Chinese are doing on their own forums, and it just makes what Google and Anthropic are doing look outdated. OpenAI feels competitive, which I like. What's coming will not be kind to us, we adapt or we die.
- blackqueeriroh 5mo agoAnthropic has had goal for a bit.
- scottyah 5mo agoOpenAI seems to be dumping a LOT of money into marketing on social media at least.
- redanddead 5mo agoI’ve been using Claude and Codex extremely heavily and use adblockers so I don’t see them
- Avicebron 5mo agoI think they mean the paid shills
- redanddead 5mo agoWhenever I see a user base turn against actual users or imply censorship or discredit actual experiences it always ends in a death spiral: Deny -> Product stops improving -> Censor -> Die Adapt or die
- xmcp123 5mo agoTo be fair, Mythos is probably one of the most significant marketing pushes in the industry in both impact and investment. I am sure there is an element of reality in it's capabilities, but there's also a significant amount of "We don't have the compute to handle this at scale", and "look look, we have the best model. It's so good that you can't even compare it to other models. That is how good we are."
- redanddead 5mo agoI’m noticing a real disconnect in the user base about this The Claude maximalists that can never see any wrong in anything and the users that care about actual capability These guys are going to be in for a rude awakening when the Chinese are steamrolling us with data centers you can see from space and better models, Amodei will tell you that himself
- worik 5mo agoThis is true for all the UASanian frontier model owners They are all going to get their lunch eaten by the Chinese. In the USA with access to most of the world's capital, they've succumbed to the temptation of "bigger, faster, harder" Whilst the Chinese, with enough capital only, have had to think. The Chinese models are already miles ahead on cost/inference basis and will probably pass all the USAnian companies in five years The age of UASnian engineering dominance are coming to an end. Let's all hope she goes quietly - not at the moment
- viking123 5mo agoI really hope the Chinese win this, the Epstein class deserves everything coming for them. Btw, the Chinese president is much more moral than any of the creeps leading USA currently, just see the wikileaks cable assesment on Xi Jinping and why he was not part of the Epstein class.