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@wesbos If you want an interesting test that actually demonstrates brownfield development (without requiring too much set up on your own part), ask the model to expand or modify the behavior of a large complicated open-source project that you actively use.

@wesbos That said, this greenfield test does do a fairly good job of demonstrating how well these models can replace design agency work. If all you're building are businesscard-like or brochure-like landing pages, then sure, this test is fine.

Composer 2 vs Opus 4.6 vs GPT 5.4 - a totally unscientific test > Create a Twitter clone. Use Better Auth, Vite, Sqlite, Drizzle, Typescript, and React with Tanstack Start. Each one took ~5 mins in plan mode. Each had access to a browser to test. Composer: 5 mins $6.04 1,250 LOC Opus: 19 mins $10.43 1,000 LOC GPT: 22 mins $14.15 2,000 LOC Opus seems to use the cache WAY more than composer, so it's not really 10x more expensive. Composer app ran first try. Other two needed a bit of CORS debugging but did work. Code between all was extremely similar All three done inside cursor - so Claude Code / Codex may have been different Models used: Composer 2.0 (regular, not fast) Opus 4.6 Medium Thinking GPT 5.4 Medium Thinking

@pirosb3 @fynnso You’re comparing “all forms of fine tuning” to “a specific form of fine tuning”.

@fynnso In this scenario is it actually fine tuning or is it a LoRa adapter? I’m a little new to these concepts but very curious.

was messing with the OpenAI base URL in Cursor and caught this accounts/anysphere/models/kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast so composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL at least rename the model ID

@BlackHC TLDR: How did you know that software was good before the era of AI? Pure vibes. How do you know it's good after the era of AI? Still pure vibes, nothing has changed.

@BlackHC Again, prompt engineering is an actual skill set and there's actually a lot of nuance to it despite people ridiculing it. "Building an intuitive sense of the things that the LLM can actually infer accurately through language" is a key part of that.

A while back, Andrej Karpathy said the app store will be replaced by generated, disposable software," and Amjad Masad predicted that the value of all application software will go to zero I think this "ephemeral software hypothesis" is wrong, though, and I want to explain why:

@drpezeshkian If I stub my toe on a door because I'm being clumsy, should I publicly condemn the door (even though I brought that outcome upon myself)?

@drpezeshkian Like if I get fired or laid off at work, should I "publicly condemn" my previous employer and tell them in a public post why I believe they made the wrong move?

I strongly condemn attacking Iran’s energy infrastructure. Such aggressive acts will yield nothing for the Zionist–American enemy & their supporters. This will complicate the situation & could have uncontrollable consequences, the scope of which could engulf the entire world.