1. sinatra Dec 19, 2025 parent

   My (admittedly one person's anecdotal) experience has been that when I ask Codex and Claude to make a plan/fix and then ask them both to review it, they both agree that Codex's version is better quality. This is on a 140K LOC codebase with an unreasonable amount of time spent on rules (lint, format, commit, etc), on specifying coding patterns, on documenting per workspace README.md, etc.
2. sinatra Dec 19, 2025 parent

   Piggybacking on this post. Codex is not only finding much higher quality issues, it’s also writing code that usually doesn’t leave quality issues behind. Claude is much faster but it definitely leaves serious quality issues behind.

   So much so that now I rely completely on Codex for code reviews and actual coding. I will pick higher quality over speed every day. Please don’t change it, OpenAI team!

3. sinatra Dec 4, 2025 parent

   Let’s call it JoyScript so it still shortens to JS. And so at least the name as some joy in it even if the language doesn’t.
4. sinatra Dec 2, 2025 parent

   Hah. It can’t be “I need to spend more time to figure out how to use these tools better.” It is always “I’m just smarter than other people and have a higher standard.”
5. sinatra Nov 19, 2025 parent

   I currently use GPT‑5.1-Codex High and have a workflow that works well with the 5-hour/weekly limits, credits, et al. If I use GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max Medium or GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max High, how will that compare cost / credits / limits wise to GPT‑5.1-Codex High? I don't think that's clear. "Reduced tokens" makes me think it'll be priced similarly / lower. But, "Max" makes me think it'll be priced higher.
6. sinatra Nov 19, 2025 parent

   In my AGENTS.md (which CLAUDE.md et al soft link to), I instruct them to "On phase completion, explicitly write that you followed these guidelines." This text always shows up on Codex and very rarely on Claude Code (TBF, Claude Code is showing it more often lately).
7. sinatra Jul 22, 2025 parent

   I stopped having the same issue of 100s of tabs of "math videos that I was going to watch one day" when I started saving them in my private playlists. Now I just have 100s of videos in playlists that I just look at longingly but never watch.
8. sinatra Jul 14, 2025 parent

   Have you documented how you built this project using Kiro? Your learnings may help us get the best out of Kiro as we experiment with it for our medium+ size projects.
9. sinatra May 23, 2024 parent

   And the d20 rolled a 12 when you checked it for duration to hold? Man, lucky you! Give the dice a kiss!
10. sinatra May 15, 2024 parent

    First, “Plaintiffs ACCUSE the generative AI company.” Let’s not assume OpenAI is guilty just yet. Second, assuming OpenAI didn’t access the books illegally, my point still remains. If you write a book, can you really complain about a human (or in my humble opinion, a machine) learning from it?
11. sinatra May 14, 2024 parent

    Your comment seems unfair to me. We can say the exact same thing for the artist / IP creator:

    Tough luck, then. You don’t have the right to shit on and harm everyone else just because you’re a greedy asshole who wants all the money and is unwilling to come up with solutions to problems caused by your business model.

    Once the IP is on the internet, you can't complain about a human or a machine learning from it. You made your IP available on the internet. Now, you can't stop humanity benefiting from it.

12. sinatra Mar 14, 2024 parent

    Usually it’s much easier to be liberal when doing so doesn’t cost you meaningfully. I’d encourage you to evaluate for yourself if your stances are truly fair and if you’re truly liberal considering how painful it is for an H1B to lose their job vs you. It’s also easy to say “but H1Bs get exploited!” Considering how many H1Bs come here, maybe they’d rather face this exploitation vs staying in their own country?
13. sinatra Aug 5, 2023 parent

    Just to be fair, for 90% of the world, the kinds of compensation many hacker news readers have (a Silicon Valley engineer who gets a high base plus bonus plus equity) would also be considered “holy guacamole, whatever is the angle I look at it … does not make any f_ing sense”
14. sinatra Apr 24, 2023 parent

    Sorry, I meant that the maximum they’re making is $2B. But in reality it’s surely a much smaller number. Which makes it even more unlikely that Apple is optimizing for developer fees.
15. sinatra Apr 23, 2023 parent

    There are 20M developer accounts. And Apple charges $100 per account per year. That's $2B in revenue. Apps on the App Store make $100B in revenue. So, Apple makes equivalent of 2% of Apps revenue from developer accounts. I doubt they'll intentionally risk the $100B revenue by making their App Store full of crapware for a 2% equivalent.
16. sinatra Apr 10, 2022 parent

    If relay gets popular, won’t some services simply start to block relay subdomain for registration to make it ineffective? Just like 10minutesemail etc are blocked in many places.
17. sinatra Sep 14, 2021 parent

    Have a series 6, used it in the pool (salted) the first time and the watch died. Had to get a replacement from them which took one week. I couldn’t do fitness tracking all that week. So, I am not planning to use the watch in water at all.
18. 5 points Sep 10, 2021

    China increasingly rejects English and the world

    0 comments sinatra nytimes.com
19. sinatra May 23, 2021 parent

    If they’re a family oriented society, then losing the family is a big loss by itself, no?
20. sinatra May 23, 2021 parent

    Nothing to lose? They lose everything and everyone they know. You’re underrating how important that is for most people.
21. sinatra Oct 14, 2020 parent

    Add your two thumbs and two index fingers so that you can use any one of them depending on convenience or rare edge cases like rock climbing damage to one of them.
22. sinatra Sep 17, 2020 parent

    For what it’s worth, I had the same problem with all previous Apple earphones. But, I don’t have that problem with airpod pros.
23. sinatra Aug 16, 2020 parent

    This is a good place to ask this question: Lately, we’re trying to buy products on Amazon only if it says, “Sold by Amazon.com.” Is that a good way to ensure that the product is not counterfeit? The assumption is that if Amazon is selling something directly, it would be getting it directly from the real manufacturer.
24. sinatra Aug 15, 2020 parent

    Yes. But the companies need to keep in mind that they’ll have to review the IP laws of not only US but also the country of the candidate. Just because they sign a contract with the candidate that’s valid in US doesn’t mean that the candidate doesn’t have full IP ownership of the code in her own country. And the company needs to do this review of IP laws for each country from where they get such candidates.
25. sinatra Aug 9, 2020 parent

    You have to drink a LOT of water to reach that state or over flushing out electrolytes. Whereas, a dramatically large popular doesn’t drink enough water. So, in general, the above advice is still very valid.
26. sinatra Jul 20, 2020 parent

    We shouldn't mistake "communication" with "meetings" or "talking a lot." But, communicating more through the right channels is indeed very helpful. Maybe through more documentation, maybe on Slack, maybe through weekly/monthly updates emails that one can easily ignore, if needed, or maybe through more listening.

    The reason I think communication is very important is that limited or incorrect / stale information is a very big problem for medium-large organizations (the kind of organizations that have PMs). Many times, poor or lack of sufficient communication is the foundational reason for other issues that we see regarding seemingly always changing priorities, decisions being made out of nowhere, etc.

27. 3 points Jul 18, 2020

    Coursera Raises $130M At $2.5B Valuation

    0 comments sinatra forbes.com
28. sinatra Jul 2, 2020 parent

    Isn’t CreditKarma trying a free alternative to TurboTax et al?

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