Wrote up about my personal journey from AI skeptic to someone who finds a lot of value in it daily. My goal is to share a more measured approach to finding value in AI rather than the typical overly dramatic, hyped bait out there. mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-…
Genuinely puzzled by the Codex vs Opus 4.5 comparisons for Python. In my experience, Codex code structure degrades quickly and it over-engineers with redundant checks. Am I missing something?
@itsnoahd@yacineMTB I feel the same as you, but for a long time I was using Codex because I follow a lot of guys saying it's way better like @steipete . I might use it wrongly, I dunno. Codex makes code that work but the code is too weird sometimes. Triple checking useless things for instance.
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