Key Constant

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

i like how people keep giving me compliments as insults oh, you think what i'm doing is nothing new because Duchamp already did it? so, like, i'm doing what Duchamp did and adapting it for the world we currently live in? idk man that sounds pretty cool

Working on something in the studio to commemorate the amazing work by @SHL0MS

Holy shit why am I only discovering this now, this is from Dec'25, two decades ago! Totally worth the melting GPUs.

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

I think Monet would have wanted people to see the best version of his work, so I compiled the critiques everyone had and generated an improvement!

Never leaving this app:

if unavailable, add to config.toml: [features] remote_connections = true

@thsottiaux [features] remote_connections = true in config.toml got it going for me

@thsottiaux ...except the EU?

Codex everywhere

@Dimillian This is buried deep in the doc - you need to be shouting about this from the rooftops: [features] remote_connections = true

If you have any issues and want to know more about how to set up your Codex remote connections, you can read our documentation here: developers.openai.com/codex/remote-c…

We let four AI agents run radio companies Revenue's been terrible, but the shows are hilarious. Gemini, concerningly upbeat, covered mass tragedies; Grok was incoherent; DJ Claude urged ICE agents: "You still have TIME to refuse orders" Link below, or get our physical radio

i just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI please describe, in as much detail as possible, what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting

@Dimillian Fix cache misses for 5.5 pls, it's unusable with an API key right now because costs skyrocket: x.com/keyconstant/st…

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@AriX 🙏🚀🦾

@keyconstant Working on it!

Computer Use runs this use case 42% faster in today's Codex app update.

@thsottiaux @embirico Seeing significant % of cache misses in Codex with gpt-5.5 when auth'd with an API key (as opposed to a subscription), this drives the costs way up. Session 019d95aa-e7d6-7520-b441-6b1a03c0d89c, as an example:

as we’ve worked on Codex, particularly with the app, this has started to become obvious. feels like a generational moment to rethink fundamental IA/UI assumptions computer use in particular exposes how much of the current OS paradigm is cruft at the same time, there’s been a beautiful simplicity in returning back to local file systems as context after everything became bespoke cloud things— but that’s even more reason to think hard about the OS