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This is a good amalgamation of the sentiment shift I see among developers online from "Anthropic is ruling everything" to "it's a 50/50 race with OpenAI" again. Despite the high views from media, Google Gemini is nowhere: "i went from 80/20 claude/gpt to 80/20 gpt/claude in <3 months. surprised by this tbh" "claude still mogs gpt for non-coding agent stuff. codex feels like an engineer (which is great for coding!)" "anthropic has got to figure out the compute thing. you can feel it as a user. vibes are all out of whack bc of it. my opinions above are all likely downstream of this. it’s an issue." OpenAI "gpt 5.5 is incredible. the level to which i trust it for engineering is amazing. if i could only have one model rn, it would be this one just bc of strong need for the coding use case." OpenAI "codex team is killing it. app has been the gold standard since 5.3 release (buuut i credit conductor team for the ui innovation that everyone is using now). though" "gemini…? seems like this is 2-3 models now where the model seems like a great release and then nobody ever uses it? i’m bullish google/deepmind but weird it hasn’t translated to product use in any form. kinda disappointed still" "no open source models have hit the opus 4.5 level. was hopeful the new deepseek would get there, but nope"

🚨BREAKING: GOOGLE COMMITS $40 BILLION INVESTMENT IN ANTHROPIC - $10B cash now at $350B valuation - $30B more if Anthropic hits performance targets - commits 5GW TPU compute over 5 years Google cloud makes more money on Anthropic API than on Gemini btw

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Is Codex 0.116.0 the last version with fast startup? Subsequent versions launch so slowly on my computer.

Progress Updates: - Codex finished functional prototype in two days - A lot of time was spent on API redesign and optimization. AI wasn't very useful here