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by mwigdahl 1y ago
And on the other side, to detractors, AI and LLMs cannot ever succeed. There's always another goalpost to shift. If it seems to work well, it's because it's copying training data. Or it sometimes gets something wrong, so it
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Here's one. I have a head to head "benchmark" involving generating a React web app to display a Gantt chart, add tasks, layer overlaps, read and write to files, etc. I compared implementing this application using both Claud
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
The problem is that you're talking about a multistep process where each step beyond the first depends on the particular path the agent starts down, along with human input that's going to vary at each step. I made a crude first sta
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Claude Code vs. Codex CLI: Head to Head(mattwigdahl.substack.com)
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I was annoyed at reading all the subjective comparisons and outright conspiracy theories on the Reddit AI coding groups, backed by nothing more than that day's subjective observations. So I put the older and newer versions of Claude Co
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
The second part sounds like it would be good protection against LLM abuse -- if they don't actually understand their design, they'd be hard pressed to explain and adapt it with any fluency.
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The article was good and goes into more detail than I expected it would about the particular perverse incentives in this case. But in general, isn't this a problem with all forms of commercial auditing? Without a truly adversarial pro
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The author said he was not a Rust expert and had no prior familiarity with the codebase. An hour for a 14 line fix that works and is acceptable quality to merge is pretty good given those conditions.
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In Office apps on Windows just type two hyphens and then a word afterwards and it will autoconvert to an em-dash.
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Or the one with the fake man behind a white lever? https://youtu.be/eAkeZqAN_qU?t=20
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"Consistently"? Is there more than just the one METR study that's saying this?
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It could also be that they really care that the experience of _sending_ them money is frictionless, but they don't care so much about other actions (such as withdrawals...)
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Or Harrison Bergeron...
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And cold fusion. A friend's father (a chemistry professor) back in the early 90s wasted a bunch of time trying variants on Pons and Fleischmann looking to unlock tabletop fusion.
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Full Self Coding?
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Thank you, that works! :)
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The military could not vote either. You had to _complete_ Federal Service before you earned the franchise.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
My daughter has DBS for severe Tourette's. Her quality of life before the implant was horrible -- frequent 110 dB+ screams and self-injury. The implant has reduced her tic frequency and intensity by easily 95%. It's not only gi
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
I don't, but I feel like GP was just expressing respect for the aesthetics of the engineering accomplishment, orthogonal to whether it was obsolete or not. Something akin to how one might feel looking at the design of a clipper ship.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Perfect! You really got to the core of the matter! The only thing I noticed is that your use of the em-dash needs to not be bracketed with spaces on either end. LLMs—as recommended by most common style guides—stick to the integrated styl
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
That is not dead which can eternal lie...
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Still hasn't happened to me; beeping smoke alarms drive me crazy.
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Funding secured!
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
You can run Claude Code in the terminal window of VS Code, and it has IDE integration so you can see diffs inline, etc. It's not fully integrated like Cursor but you get a lot of the benefits of the IDE in that way.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Interesting that the other vendors haven't done this "trivial" task, then, and have pretty much ceded the field to Claude Code. _Every_ CLI interface I've used from another vendor has been markedly inferior to Claude Co
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
It seems like few people are referencing the improvements in reliability and deception. If the benchmarks given generalize, what OpenAI has in GPT-5 is a cheap, powerful, _reliable_ model -- the perfect engine to generate high quality synt
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It's been fixed on the OpenAI website.
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Has anyone tried connecting up GPT-5 to Claude Code using the model environment variables?
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If reasoning is on the table, then you already had to add o3-mini-high, o3-mini-medium, o3-mini-low, o4-mini-high, o4-mini-medium, and o4-mini-low to the 4.1 variants. The GPT-5 way seems simpler to me.
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<raises hand> Our automated test folks were chronically behind, struggling to keep up with feature development. I got the two assigned to the team that was the most behind set up with Claude Code. Six weeks later they are fully cau

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