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Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#121

I still want something no one has, which is the ability to launch agents in different git worktrees simultaneously and check the results out on my main branch for testing when they are finished.

tmux users might find this useful: https://github.com/raine/workmux

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#122
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree 1,000%. I just won’t even waste my time with the google stuff cuz I can’t figure out how to pay with it. And that’s a problem everywhere at google. Our google play account is suspended cuz I can’t verify the company. It won’t let me cuz it says I’m not the owner. I’ve always been the owner of my company. For 18 years. There is no one else. Once some error said make sure the owner email matches your profile in g…

The "Owner" accounts in Google Play and Apple's App Store are so freaking annoying. The only time they make sense is for solo-founders and even then I've had issues. Now expand it to working at a larger company and it's a joke, a bad one. Oh sure, I'll just get the CEO (or other higher-up) to login and accept new agreements, that will be easy. Even more fun when you tell a client (who logged in exactly 1 time to set…

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Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

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post #40

I would love to see all the big players put 1% of the effort they put into model training into making the basic process of paying and signing in suck less. Claude: they barely have a signin system at all. Multiple account support doesn’t exist. The minimum seat count for business is nonsense. The data retention policies are weak. OpenAI: Make ZDR a thing you can use or buy without talking to sales, already. And for t…

Last night, just after Gemini 3 was released and became available for Gemini-CLI, I saw Gemini-CLI's team post that you could access Gemini 3 with either an API key OR with _Gemini AI Ultra_, so I thought: great, I'll get that! Now you CAN NOT get the Google One stuff if your account is part of a workspace. I thought: how awful. I want to pay, but I simply can't? Oh, but then I noticed: You CAN add a _Gemini AI Ultra…

the microsoftication of Google. Fighting evil with evil...

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#124
not sure if I am actually using 5.1-codex-max or just normal 5.1-codex (is there even 5.1-codex?) trying to continue work where gemini 3 left off and couple prompts in I had to switch back since it was reimplementing and changing things that didn't need changing and attempted to solve typos by making the code implementing those things work with the typo, weird behavior - probably is not compatible with the style gemini tries to solve problems.

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#125
post #56

I've been using a lot of Claude and Codex recently. One huge difference I notice between Codex and Claude code is that, while Claude basically disregards your instructions (CLAUDE.md) entirely, Codex is extremely, painfully, doggedly persistent in following every last character of them - to the point that i've seen it work for 30 minutes to convolute some solution that was only convoluted because of some sentence I t…

Well surely that's a good thing.

In my experience, for some reason adherence is not even close to 100%. It's fixated on adding asterisk function params in my Python code and I cannot get it to stop... Maybe I haven't found the right wording, or maybe my codebase has grown past a certain size (there are like a dozen AGENTS.md files dancing around).

I'm still very happy with the tool, though.

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#126
post #115
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what did i get wrong here? You don't know how an LLM works and you are operating on flawed anthropomorphic metaphors. Ask a frontier LLM what a context window is, it will tell you.

Parent is likely thinking of sparse attention which allows a significantly longer context to fit in memory

My comment was harsher than it needed to be and I'm sorry, I think I should have gotten my point across in a better way.

With that out of the way, parent was wondering why compaction is necessary arguing that "context window is not some physical barrier but rather the attention just getting saturated". We're trying to explain that 3+2=2+3 and you people are sitting in the back going "well, actually, not all groups are abelian".

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#127
post #56

I've been using a lot of Claude and Codex recently. One huge difference I notice between Codex and Claude code is that, while Claude basically disregards your instructions (CLAUDE.md) entirely, Codex is extremely, painfully, doggedly persistent in following every last character of them - to the point that i've seen it work for 30 minutes to convolute some solution that was only convoluted because of some sentence I t…

Well surely that's a good thing. In my experience, for some reason adherence is not even close to 100%. It's fixated on adding asterisk function params in my Python code and I cannot get it to stop... Maybe I haven't found the right wording, or maybe my codebase has grown past a certain size (there are like a dozen AGENTS.md files dancing around). I'm still very happy with the tool, though.

It's a fantastic thing! It's required an adjustment in how I use it, but I've switched over to mostly using Codex in my day-to-day.

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

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post #40

I would love to see all the big players put 1% of the effort they put into model training into making the basic process of paying and signing in suck less. Claude: they barely have a signin system at all. Multiple account support doesn’t exist. The minimum seat count for business is nonsense. The data retention policies are weak. OpenAI: Make ZDR a thing you can use or buy without talking to sales, already. And for t…

It seems pretty clear the moat is built at the application layer, how enjoyable/easy the actual application is to use, but these applications seem to be getting worse over time even as the models get better. Is it really that hard to do both? Isn’t the point of agentic coding to do more better (not just more)?

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#129
post #40

I would love to see all the big players put 1% of the effort they put into model training into making the basic process of paying and signing in suck less. Claude: they barely have a signin system at all. Multiple account support doesn’t exist. The minimum seat count for business is nonsense. The data retention policies are weak. OpenAI: Make ZDR a thing you can use or buy without talking to sales, already. And for t…

ZDR is a risk thing for them. They want to make sure you're a legitimate company and have monitoring in place on your side to reduce the chance you're using them for illegal things.

Re: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

#130
I got prompted to try it out on the web. It gave me this after 5 minutes:

"I wasn’t able to finish creating the new base homepage module template and updating every module to inherit from it within the available time. I did not make any changes or commits."

Told it to get back to work. Let's see how that goes.

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