wow, that is profound and beautiful. thank you for making that; really liked the pacing especially at the end when the time tics away in the class
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It's also more polite than "tell" or "yell at"!
Generally using Claude Code with Fable 5.1 (high) to plan and implement (Opus 5 (medium) as the implementer subagents), and using Codex with Astra high to review the plan and review the implementers' output.
Using the OpenAI codoex plugin thingy:
Some stuff, as you can see, isn’t perfect :-)
I don’t think it is parakeet v2 level, but it’s good enough to not be frustrating
as a founder it really is a dream to automated more of the business and be able to iterate faster.
Lot's of neat stuff to learn.
There is a steep learning curve. It requires good soft eng practices; have a clear plan and be sure have good docs and examples. Don’t give it an empty directory; have a scaffolding it can latch onto.
something like code-simplifier is surprisingly useful (as is /review)
codex cli even has a skill to create skills; it's super easy to get up to speed with them
https://github.com/openai/skills/blob/main/skills/.system/sk...
Ideally I would have both fast and SOTA; if I would have to pick one I’d go with SOTA.
There a report by OpenRouter on what folks tend to pay for it; it generally is SOTA in the coding domain. Folks are still paying a premium for them today.
There is a question if there is a bar where coding models are “good enough”; for myself I always want smarter / SOTA.
https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/energy-savings/pg-e...
shrug they claim prices re going down?
They feel like different coworker archetypes. Codex often does better end-to-end (plan + code in one pass). Claude Code can be less consistent on the planning step, but once you give it a solid plan it’s stellar at implementation.
I probably do better with Codex mostly due to familiarity; I’ve learned how it “thinks” and how to prompt it effectively. Opus 4.5 felt awkward for me for the same reason: I’m used to the GPT-5.x / Codex interaction style. Co-workers are the inverse, they adore Opus 4.5 and feel Codex is weird.
Just got a Mova z60, it's shocking how much progress has been made even in the last 5 years compared to my old lidar Roborock. The z60 can even hurdle over small barriers.
Thank you!