Brian Durand

@BacLeodiv AI is a tool, just like a computer is a tool. Use the best tools at the time to create things.

If AI wrote most of your code, do you feel shameless calling yourself a founder?

@TTrimoreau Use Codex, I find it much better, I have not went over any limits doing the same thing Claude would constantly hit limits on.

Is there any way to use Claude Code without hitting the usage limit every time ?

Too little to late for me. You can have 3 times the time if it does not work as good as Codex than it is meaningless. It has to work for it to be useful, it was making to many mistakes, going around in circles for my use cases. Codex just fixes things much quicker that Claude could not.

50% increase in Claude Code weekly limit doesn't excite me like it used to.

You are naive to think we don't need data centers. What happens when AI super intelligence is reached in the USA or China? Do you think they are just going to share it with Canada out of the goodness of their hearts? Most likely they just come and make us the 51st state like they have already been promising, and take our resources. We need AI and robots to compete with the world and be independent, we can't rely on other countries to provide it for us.

@MarkJCarney Literally nobody wants AI data centres.

It’s time to build.

I don't know, I don't mind people know that I use AI in writing. You still have to come up with the idea for the AI writing. It is not just going to write for you without you directing it and approving the post. We have always used tools to help us do things. AI is just the latest, and best.

genuinely hate that I can no longer use "—" in anything I write anymore

@PaulMaddison121 @adcock_brett @nuthatch9s That is all great until you show up to take over the new planet and the robots put up a closed sign, not accepting humans. Seriously though we are living in exciting times. One way or another the next 25 years are going to be wild

I don't think it would be embarrassing if something went wrong It's admirable you are even able to do something like this at this stage And you have all obviously tested it several times off camera Will they be autonomous random tasks or will it be following a script ie do washing, dishes, hoover etc ? Really interested in what you guys are doing, this could be the tech that makes Mars and every other planet feasible Get sign off for Nuclear mini reactors and you get 30 years worth of power for each robot. Robots could mine, process and manufacture on any planet over and over again is self replicate Everything we use comes from the ground and is mimed, processed and manufactured. You could theoretically do the same on any planet or underwater on the foot of the oceans or anywhere on earth you want to build etc

This is a risky and confident move. Eight hours live-streamed. One 30 second screwup could create an incredibly embarrassing clip.

@gailcweiner He will not stop training AI. Will he try to compete with the other models for the consumer market, maybe not. But AI is to powerful not to try and have your own models.

What is the future of Grok? Will Musk just switch it off and go hard into the data centre business ?

It does not matter who is the first to show a concept or cool demos. I would not count out Elon and Tesla for anything. He has the will and the money, and support to make Optimus the best. Saying that I think Figure will do well too, just not at the scale that Tesla will. Tesla has the resources and money to scale way better than Figure.

Is Figure currently ahead of Tesla in autonomous, humanoid robotics? Behind the scenes, probably not. But in terms of real demos they've publicly shared, it does kinda look that way.......

@hamids The thing is Elon will not stop until Optimus is the best. He has the will and at this point the money and support to make it happen. You don't need to be first to be best.

What if $TSLA's Optimus relative to other Robots is only as good as xAI is relative to Anthropic and OpenAI? I think lots of Tesla investors are assuming Optimus will be the best. But nothing Elon has done lately has been the best. Just food for thought.

@moritzkremb I switched, unless Codex stops working for me I will not switch back. I started with Chat GPT for chatting only, only switched to Claude code because it was the hype app of the time. If Codex keeps updating and just working like it is now or better I will keep using it.

Feels like everyone in the Twitter AI bubble is switching to Codex lately But I think Anthropic will release something new soon, like a new model, way better app, or crazy new features and then everyone will just flock back

@_TYay0_ @MarwaEldiwiny They already use these in factories, they are trying to replace the jobs that humans do now. These types of robots cannot replace what humans do.

@MarwaEldiwiny I don't get it. why should we use humanoid robots in logistics centers? Why not this?

I'm curious what happened here..

@mariush_ca @hiarun02 Claude said they were doubling the usage too. I did not notice any extra usage personally.

@hiarun02 They are moving because of the hype and double usage promotion from OpenAI. There will be tears when the promotion ends and the limits become normal.

Are people moving from Claude Code to Codex just because it uses fewer tokens, or is there something else making people switch too?

It actually works better I find. I only used Claude for about a month heavily, it was ok but starting getting worse and worse the more I used it. I tried Codex on 5.5 and it was significantly better and fixing issues Claude was getting stuck on. I have never once hit my limit on Codex 100 plan compared to doing the same things and hitting the 5 hour limit constantly on Claude's 100 plan.

@here4launches @Tusk_4Real I don't know if it is the world has changed, I think it is more we know more now with the internet and shared experiences. We were just more naive in past generations.

@Tusk_4Real I had sleepovers as a kid - my kids did not. They went to friends houses and could stay until late, but then they came home. The world is not the same place it used to be - just talk to someone that has served on a grand jury.

I was a kid in the 90s, and by the time I was 12 I had stayed at my friends houses hundreds of nights for sleepovers. My friends stayed with me hundreds of nights for sleepovers. Video games. Making home movies. Snacks. Bewshittin'. My sons are 8 and 12 and neither of them have ever been to a sleepover. Neither of them have ever tried to get one cooking at my house. And don't get me wrong - I do NOT want other kids at my house. But I wouldn't deny my kids the opportunity to make those memories. Are sleepovers just not a thing anymore? What is going on?

I don’t think their main concern is making money from customers in the traditional sense. My guess is that, in their minds, if all this investment eventually gets them to superintelligence, the entire business model could change. At that point, they may not need customers the way companies do today. If AI can help create almost anything, including robot labor, cheaper abundant energy, and the tools needed to produce goods at scale, then revenue from regular customers may become far less important. The whole economic system could look completely different after superintelligence.

Mark Cuban reveals why OpenAI will never make back the trillion dollars they're planning to spend on AI infrastructure "They'll never get it. They're just burning away that money at scale. It's not that AI is not going to work but look at Apple, right? They haven't spent next to anything but they've got a foundation where they can just plug and play into their devices" "We don't know if the business of foundational models, the ChatGPTs, Geminis, Grok, Claude, is going to be like the streaming industry where there's one leader and a bunch of players that make money, or search where there's effectively one company" "A lot of the numbers that they're throwing out there aren't going to come to fruition. Those who have just gone all in, some of them are spending more cash than they have available" "They need to raise all the money, go all in, kiss all the rings they need to kiss around the world in hopes of being the one. If you don't go all in like that, you're in deeper trouble. If you're not the winner, you've got problems"

@AlexNg91 @HockeyPatrol I don't think so, Toronto's window was 2 or 3 years ago. They blew it when they did not trade Mitch Marner when they still could. This core already had their chance for 8 years or so. Time to move on in my opinion.

@HockeyPatrol why would the leafs do that? We need to win now, trading 34 and 88 would put us in a 4-5 year re-build. Boston and Florida both declining, Tampa should be. Our window is still open

If Toronto ever chose the nuclear reset: Auston Matthews becomes San Jose’s franchise centrepiece. William Nylander gives Chicago another elite winger beside Bedard. In return, the Maple Leafs walk away with a future core built around Gavin McKenna, Michael Misa, Easton Cowan, Matthew Knies, Sam Rinzel, Cameron Reid and Noah Chadwick. It would be painful now. But Toronto would go from capped-out contender to the NHL’s most loaded young pipeline almost overnight.

Full code, the cleanup prompt, and the exact Claude Code build prompt I used: 📦 github.com/BrianDurand1/m… 📝 everydayaiwithbrian.com/blog/replace-w…

The trick to local LLM cleanup that doesn't paraphrase: A strict system prompt with worked examples. Tell a 7B model "clean this up" and it overformalizes and adds words you didn't say. Tell it the rules + give 6 examples and it nails it.

I cancelled my Wispr Flow subscription. Then I built a free local clone in 15 minutes. Meet Murmur 👇