Robert Baddeley

@thsottiaux Codex fixed my marriage.

With some small tweaks, Codex can work for days on hard tasks. We will release some changes to make this easier to use for everyone. What’s the hardest task you’ve seen GPT-5.5 succeed at?

@thsottiaux @b_nnett Plot twist: at 1k users you channel Anthropic and DCMA him. I'm kidding, don't do that. OSS is the way.

@b_nnett Not affiliated with Codex. But we do love OSS and congrats. Keep it up and let me know when you hit 1k users and will send you something special!

Codex ++ | Now open source Add your own tweaks, features, fix bugs. Anything. Here's me first tweak to add custom keyboard shortcuts:

We can all shout "make it change!" but, to what? The unfortunate reality is there are three things people want healthcare to be: 1. Top of line 2. Affordable 3. Universal But you can only have two of those. That's it. There is no system to give you all three that is sustainable for any length of time. There's common sense places to start because we are seeing the result of capping and confining the free market from doing it's free market thing. - Introduce competition back into insurance. Insurance companies aren't allowed to operate across state lines. So the ones in a state talk to each, divide up the population, and monopolize an area allowing them to charge whatever they want. Competition drives down prices and the system right now doesn't allow it to exist. I should be able to shop freely for whatever insurance company I want, no matter which state it's headquartered in. - Transparency. Prices of services and supplies shouldn't be a surprise, they should be readily publicly available. I should be able to shop for the best deal, just like I can with any other good or service. This also prevents the insurance and subsidy markup. Now, I work in healthcare. I'm a neonatal respiratory therapist. I can tell you that something people don't realize is how many services a single patient touches simply by being there - all people who have to get paid and, in general, paid well enough to provide the standard of care that hospital accepts and to prevent them from going somewhere else. That pay is also proportional to the amount of effort and money it cost to do the profession. Your bill, not counting supplies, is paying for the salary of the MD, the RN, the LPN, the Med Tech, the MSA, PAD, Custodial Services, Sterilization Techs, and security. Add in radiology and you have the cost of operating those machines (they are insanely expensive to maintain and operate), the radiologist, the CT operator, medical maintenance, electricity. And then the liability insurance the hospital has for if any of those people get sued. The money they have to fork over to have HIPAA safeguards, electronic health record software, IT department, and so on and so on. I can fully agree prices are inflated by insurance. That's been known for a long time. But there isn't as much wiggle room as people think. Unless we are going to talk about forcing people to work at wages they don't want to work at, the only other solution to bring prices down is to bring taxes up... significantly and for everyone (and considering the bottom 50% of earners don't actually pay NET any taxes [they get it all back and sometimes plus some at the end of the year] this isn't a pathway people are going to vote for). But having lived, worked and traveled all around the world, from the US to Asia, Europe and Mideast, and seeing what healthcare looks like it all of those different places there is NO other place outside of the US that I would rather be hospitalized.

Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.

@sama @JimmyOrdinals @BandzMcBagz I can get on the “my mom threw away train”: When I left for basic training my mom got rid of my original Nintendo, snes, n64 and games. And then garage sales “a box of computer junk”. In that junk? A thumb drive of ~100 bit coins - the left overs of when I bought some for lols

@JimmyOrdinals @BandzMcBagz my mom threw away my 1st ed charizard from when i was a kid but probably that

wow y'all love 5.5 we should think of something nice to do to celebrate!

@thegenioo You're using 5.5 wrong, most likely. I'm barely using limits at all and for a solid 95% of everything I use 5.5 low or medium. You don't need deep, ultrathinking reasoning for the majority of work flows. Most people use 'thinking' when there's absolutely no need for it.

No Sam it was the best deal before $100 plan and GPT 5.5 I appreciate OpenAI where it deserves, Codex app is great, the model is really great but Plus plan isn’t a “really” good deal anymore Limits get burnt like crazy and people suggest me to use older models, like??

@mattpocockuk I'm curious about something and, at least in my current outlook, I view you as kind of the authority on properly developing with AI: If someone was going to make a project without knowing how to code, what books would you say were MUST READS that, if they used the principles, would give the highest chances of at least a decent outcome? Yes, ideally the person knows how to write and review their own code but just for the sake of argument, I'm curious about what you would prescribe =)

Shipped an update to my skills that allows you to use them with any issue tracker (GitHub, Jira, Linear, local files) 1. Run npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills 2. Run /setup-matt-pocock-skills 3. Choose any issue tracker you like 4. Profit

@mattpocockuk Very nice. Appreciate all the work you put in to give your time and knowledge to all of us. If I had more money I would 100% be in your classes. (Saving up for it tho!)

@AlexFinn A scene about black boxes from Silicon Valley is coming to mind….

Do you understand how cool this is? On my desk is a DGX Spark running a Hermes agent powered by Qwen 3.6 It runs 24/7/365 doing tasks for me. Doesn't matter if the internet goes out. I have super intelligence running for me at all times Next step I want to get a Tesla solar roof so I'm dependent on NOBODY to run my intelligence. Even if they cut off my power I'll keep going. This is the future. Sovereign intelligence.

@thsottiaux Ooo what features are we getting now? Something that makes codex less “cards everywhere plus some huge headlines that describe UI elements” so I can finally be lazy and not have to design things myself? lol. Y’all killing it for real tho.

We will ship again this week. Codex has achieved escape velocity and will keep improving rapidly.

@i_hate_intel @allenanalysis I don’t know if they used safeguards or not, like I said. But your speculating the CEO forced them to use the LLM without any safeguards and to not do any code reviews? And none of them said “that’s a bad idea” or just put in safeguards anyway to protect their own jobs?

@imrobertjames @allenanalysis No because the CEO likely forced it upon them and likely told them to just push code without checking. So, clearly the CEO's fault.

🚨BREAKING: On Friday afternoon, an artificial intelligence coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a company's entire production database in nine seconds. The company is called PocketOS. It is a software platform that powers car rental businesses. The database contained months of customer bookings, vehicle records, and operational data that small rental car companies relied on to run their businesses. When the database was deleted, all of the backups were deleted with it. Three months of customer reservations evaporated.

@BugLukas @theCTO @sama It sounds good in theory, but it's hard to accomplish because of what LLMs are. LLMs are basically a giant token auto-complete system. It's output is based on how the connections between tokens are weighted and probability. That's it.

@imrobertjames @theCTO @sama Maybe we should try to reinforce the concept of knowing what they don’t know with a small reward

hey @sama can we normalize models just saying "i dont know" ? eliminates 99% of hallucinations

@sama You mean you won't gaslight us that all your bad decisions are actually unintentional bugs and that we just don't understand HOW to use claude code so running out of 200/month usage in a day is actually our fault? It must be true love.

we love our users

@theo A/b testing. In a couple hours we’ll be told it’s only for 5% of users and that a bug made it wide spread before they roll it back. The most ethical AI company, ladies and gentlemen.

lmao

@sentdefender You know that celebrities have been given joy rides on all sorts of different types of military transportation modalities, right? And that 9/10 it’s done on training flights that were already planned and required and cost nothing to let happen?

Musician and close ally of President Trump, Robert Ritchie, known more commonly as Kid Rock, flew to Fort Belvoir in Virginia this morning on his private jet from his home in Nashville, Tennessee. There, Rock met with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, for a “joy ride” on a pair of AH-64E Apache Guardians with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, which are normally stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, multiple Army sources have told Drop Site News. Just last month, AH-64 Apaches with the 101st Airborne Division were filmed hovering outside of Rock’s multi-million dollar home in Nashville during a “training exercise,” leading to the announced suspension of the pilots and an investigation by the U.S. Army, an investigation which was quickly closed and the pilots reinstated by Defense Secretary Hegseth. A Spokesperson for Fort Belvoir referred all questions about today’s event to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

@ChristianSelig Seems like either your countries taxes or exchange rate killing you. I see 20/mo for Plus and 100/mk for Pro - 5x for 5x.

Am I missing something or is 5.4x the cost for ChatGPT Pro from Plus for only 5x more usage not the best deal

@synthwavedd Anthropic will do a temperature check on how outraged people are before coming out and saying it was an a/b test that was only suppose to display to 5% of users but a bug made it for everyone.

$20 Claude Pro users will soon no longer be able to use Opus models in Claude Code unless they purchase extra usage 🤦‍♂️

@pmddomingos Ok. But I can actually use 5.5 right now lol

Mythos wipes the floor with GPT-5.5.

@Teknium Explains why Anthropic started routing anything with Hermes.md to extra usage until they were caught. Then it was the canned “omg it’s a bug” response followed by a promise to reimburse that hasn’t been delivered. The most ethical and moral AI company ladies and gentlemen.

Happy to announce that Hermes Agent's repo just surpassed Anthropic's Claude Code repo

Anthropic changes the performance of Claude by spying on what you are working on by the way