jonnycoder

You think coding agents or models have not improved in 3 years? From my experience they absolutely have. I've spent a lot of time getting Claude Code to write clean features in a brownfield repo. I've gone from it helping me speed up to now Fable 5.1 doing it perfectly. And there are steps one can take to improve the quality which is to teach it (SKILLs) your important design and coding standards, as well as automatic design or code review to catch edge cases, performance issues, or whatever aspect you find a high priority.

This is a great point. I find myself in the middle, where I appreciate and look up to past coworkers who were way better than me at attention-to-detail, but I have a tendency to focus on delivering actual results quickly with maintainable and easy to read code. A lot of engineering teams go into their own world on adhering to best practices with no eye on inefficiencies in the process that causes days of delay because it makes them feel better. I definitely believe in shift-left (findings bugs early saves a lot more time than finding them in production). I believe in balancing fast delivery with quality/process.

Technology in the form of computers, cell phones, and AI have been getting cheaper and better. Access to information is another one but that requires agency to take advantage of and get the benefits. This could be personal health, starting/running your own business, using ai to help create ads for your business, etc.

No, no it's been pretty easy with software engineering. I work on two types of projects and it's very easy to ask claude for a plan, then have gpt 5.5 rip it to shreds and find legit issues, and vice versa. If both 5.5 and claude 4.8 can independently create a plan and both find no critical or high issues, then we will be at that point.

I had a similar idea. I picked 10 lbs of morels last year, first time picking. It was a recent burn area from 8 months prior. I was just back out to the same area and there are no morels, but lots of small orange cap looking mushrooms. chatGPT pro said first year is the best and then it drops off on the second year. I might try a much higher elevation spot in a week or two, but it really sucks. Last year I was finding morels on southeast facing slopes. I'm sure north slopes produced later on as I saw people coming off the hill when I drove by.

It's a gimmick only for those who get sucked into buying things that they don't need. I've been a Costco shopper for decades, and sure have succumbed to some useless stuff, but my Costco list is 90% the same month to month. I get appalled when I see the same items on my list, that are smaller and in a pack of 1 instead of 2-4, for more money at other stores. If electronics were just like food, it would be like seeing a Macbook Pro for $2000 everywhere but it was $799 at Costco.

Are you ok with ciggarete smoke then if you are ok with marijuana smoke?

This is clever and provides a clean alternative to using custom plugins and mcp servers for doing code reviews.

For example, with the degradation of Claude in the past 1-2 months, I am always asking Codex to review Claude's plans and vice versa and I get excellent results that way.

Also, making a skill an API call allows for easy deployment if the security around tool calling could be isolated in an ephemeral sandbox.

I agree, I use codex 5.4 xhigh as my reviewer and it catches major issues with Opus 4.6 implementation plans. I'm pretty close to switching to codex because of how inconsistent claude code has become.

Everything in our life is a black box, but I agree that depending on non-deterministic and sporadic quality black boxes is a huge red flag.

I do the same but I often find that the subtasks are done in a very lazy way.

Yea I went through my global claude skills and /context yesterday because claude was performing terribly. I deleted a bunch of stuff including memory and anecdotally got better results later on in the day.

It’s shifting for knowledge workers too, we just need to pivot. I have had many app ideas for a while and now ai lets me build them quickly. Access to education and knowledge led to your advanced eduction, now access to cheap/fast building leads to products execution. Use your phd brain to come up with a well researched idea/plan and then go execute.