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Why did you have access to a preview?
Simon tends to write up reports of new LLM releases (with great community respect) and it's much easier with lead time if the provider is able to set up a preview endpoint.
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> Apparently they told it to build a Slack clone and left it unattended for 30 hours, and it built a Slack clone using 11,000 lines of code it's going to be an issue I think, now that lots of these agents support computer use, we are at the point where you can install an app, tell the agent you want something that works exactly the same and just let it run until it produces it. The software world may find it's got mo…
It has been trivial to build a clone of most popular services for years, even before LLMs. One of my first projects was Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial, in which a total noob can build a Twitter clone in an afternoon. What keeps people in are network effects and some dark patterns like vendor lock-in and data unportability.
You may find quickly that, network effects aside, you would find yourself crushed under the weight and unexpected bottlenecks of that network you desire.
I haven't shouted into the void for a while. Today is as good a day as any other to do so. I feel extremely disempowered that these coding sessions are effectively black box, and non-reproducible. It feels like I am coding with nothing but hopes and dreams, and the connection between my will and the patterns of energy is so tenuous I almost don't feel like touching a computer again. A lack of determinism comes from m…
> A lack of determinism comes from many places, but primarily: 1) The models change 2) The models are not deterministic... models themselves are deterministic, this is a huge pet peeve of mine, so excuse the tangent, but the appearance of nondeterminism comes from a few sources, but imho can be largely attributed to the probabilistic methods used to get appropriate context and enable timely responses. here's an examp…
https://bff531bb.connectionism.pages.dev/blog/defeating-nond...
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It has been trivial to build a clone of most popular services for years, even before LLMs. One of my first projects was Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial, in which a total noob can build a Twitter clone in an afternoon. What keeps people in are network effects and some dark patterns like vendor lock-in and data unportability.
There's a marked difference between running a Twitter-like application that scales to even a few hundred thousand users, and one that is a global scale application. You may find quickly that, network effects aside, you would find yourself crushed under the weight and unexpected bottlenecks of that network you desire.
> we are at the point where you can install an app, tell the agent you want something that works exactly the same and just let it run until it produces it
That won't produce a global-scale application infrastructure either, it'll just reproduce the functionality available to the user.
Anecdotal evidence. I have a fairly large web application with ~200k LoC. Gave the same prompt to Sonnet 4.5 (Claude Code) and GPT-5-Codex (Codex CLI). "implement a fuzzy search for conversations and reports either when selecting "Go to Conversation" or "Go to Report" and typing the title or when the user types in the title in the main input field, and none of the standard elements match, a search starts with a 2s de…
Anecdotal evidence. I have a fairly large web application with ~200k LoC. Gave the same prompt to Sonnet 4.5 (Claude Code) and GPT-5-Codex (Codex CLI). "implement a fuzzy search for conversations and reports either when selecting "Go to Conversation" or "Go to Report" and typing the title or when the user types in the title in the main input field, and none of the standard elements match, a search starts with a 2s de…
I'm not trying to be offensive here, feel the need to indicate that. But that prompt leads me to believe that you're going to get rather 'random' results due to leaving SO much room for interpretation. Also, in my experience, punctuation is important - particularly for pacing and grouping of logical 'parts' of a task and your prompt reads like a run on sentence. Making a lot of assumptions here - but I bet if I were…
After all, attention is all you need :)
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I'm not trying to be offensive here, feel the need to indicate that. But that prompt leads me to believe that you're going to get rather 'random' results due to leaving SO much room for interpretation. Also, in my experience, punctuation is important - particularly for pacing and grouping of logical 'parts' of a task and your prompt reads like a run on sentence. Making a lot of assumptions here - but I bet if I were…
I think that is an interesting observation and I generally agree. Your point about prompting quality is very valid and for larger features I always use PRDs that are 5-20x the prompt. The thing is my "experiment" is one that represents a fairly common use case: this feature is actually pretty small and embeds into an pre-existing UI structure - in a larger codebase. GPT-5-Codex allows me to write a pretty quick & dir…
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Did you use Google Play to pause subscription? Because Claude Pro says there is no pause subscription except on Google Play and then goes on to explain your problem if that's the case.
Thanks for the info, but I did pause this, not through Google Play, it was via the UI. I received an automated email from them that my subscription had been paused as I expected and will resume in 1 month unless I cancel (I can’t cancel because the cancel UI doesn’t exist in whatever status my account is somehow in). It’s funny that Claude Pro says this isn’t a feature, because their chatbot gave me instructions on h…
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/compress or something like that, basically taking the context and summarizing it.
Cursor does this automatically, although I wish there was a command for it as well. All AIs start shitting the bed once their context goes above 80% or so.
Do any other tools have anything like a /context command? They really should.
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Sure. I don't doubt it. But let's say if I can make a 100 million pounds appears on your bank account tomorrow. Will you say no to it and go back to your day job?
Can you though? What you can do, though, is quit that job you hate and go do something (anything!) else until you find what's right for you.