Victor Mota

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@ianpha But I stick to codex mostly

@ianpha same here!

One of our engineers on Claude Code vs Codex costs 😅

@adarshsolanki @mayfer What parakeet version are you using Parakeet V3 large in VoiceInk is basically perfect

@mayfer no it's not better than parakeet how are you measuring this?

PSA, apple's built in Speech Recognition is both faster and more accurate than Parakeet. whisper-large-v3-turbo is still king for accuracy, but if you need something faster just use apple's built in. you can use on-device only if you like. use github.com/AppDevGuy/OSSS… to integrate into native apps. other transcription models like Qwen or Mistral etc are not good for short utterences at all. they only shine with longer context

@paulg @davidsenra @pmarca Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations comes to mind

@davidsenra @pmarca What? That's not true. Do you not feel that Charles Darwin, for example, was among the great men of history?

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

Session forking is such a nice touch too!

OpenAI got me with the 2x increased usage limits on the Codex desktop app. It's a really nice experience. Super smooth - claude code app is so laggy. And the handoff experience is amazing. > I started a session locally on codex app > had to leave so I handed it off to codex cloud (with 2 attemps) > got back to my computer compared both attempts, picked the better one, synced it back to my computer > continued to iterate on it locally

@romainhuet sent!

@vimota We’ll take a look! Don’t hesitate to send me more details over DM to help reproduce. Thanks!

@romainhuet I did spot a bug in the handoff process, somehow the second handoff (cloud->back to local) put the continuation session in the wrong project

@romainhuet been a huge codex cli user, but slowly converting to the desktop app 🙏

Tmux config for re-ordering windows thank me later ``` bind -r Left swap-window -d -t -1 bind -r Right swap-window -d -t +1 ```

Best business model in the world: charge users to generate PRs and order of magnitude faster Then charge them again to review all those new PRs 😅

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We're investing heavily in the FDE function to help large enterprises transform their financial and operational processes with AI. With AI changing quickly, enterprises require partners that will help them through that journey - FDEs are critical to that mission.

In this video essay for @readtechnically, Sung (Solutions Architect here at @coplane) explains: - what are FDEs and what do they do - why you've been hearing so much about FDEs lately - how this role is going to be critical for the next era of software youtube.com/watch?v=aDq09T…

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Why do people like git worktrees over discrete checkouts? (This isn't bait, it's research)

How does AI affect @paulg 's Maker vs Manager schedule idea? On the one hand, we're moving from a world where a half day deeply focused session on one problem - that used to be the norm for engineers - no longer exists. We're constantly jumping between threads of agents working on parallel problems. Context switching - like in the manager's schedule - is the norm. We're all managers now, just of agents instead of people. At the same time, it requires its own type of deep focus to maintain state of all the work that's going on and make rapid progress. Stepping away from five concurrently running sessions means reloading all of them back into context when you get back. Despite the agent history, I find it's even harder to pick back up from an agentic coding session because it tends to be so much larger in scope and you're so much more disconnected from the output. The distinction between a Maker and a Manager is also losing its meaning. Managing people and being in meetings all day is becoming less relevant, and the leverage of an IC is growing rapidly.

/simplify doesn't seem to be in Anthropic's plugins repo or in any other skills public repo I could find. I got Claude to extract it so I could install it in `~/.agents/skills/` to use it with other coding agents. Full prompt in the here: gist.github.com/vimota/34e7781…

/simplify doesn't seem to be the same as the code-simplifier in Anthropic's plugins repo or in any other skills repo I could find. If you want to /simplify in codex, or just understand it better I got Claude to extract it. Full prompt in the gist below