by dingdong2026 ·
OpenAI would have you believe you can do real work with Codex.
I have a $20 OpenAI subscription and a $20 Claude subscription.
With Codex I can barely get one meaningful coding task done in the 5h limit. (Either Sol 5.1 high or Astra 6 high.) With Claude I can comfortably get 3 meaningful tasks done. (Opus 5.5 high.)
This is not anecdotal but from repeated experience of dozens of tasks. Doesn't matter what's the size or complexity of those tasks - they're comparable and the differences wash out in the number. I divide my work consistently.
And now an anecdote from a moment ago: I've run out of Opus weekly usage. I've found a bug in my app. Not trivial but not really hard. I had well over 50% of the Codex 5h limit left. I thought: great, Astra will crush this bug in no time. And then I watched as the tokens evaporated and I'm left with half-assed changes. I feel like tearing my hair out. I have to wait till morning to have this solved.
Dear Sam and team: please make your product at least half as competitive as Anthropic's.
by k1w1 ·
Huge open source projects have been successful by building upon dozens to hundreds of small libraries that encapsulate functionality and complexity.
AI coding uses these libraries to quickly build applications.
With the latest round of model releases I am seeing that AI can now generate the functionality of almost any library in-line as it generates the application.
When building took a long time, breaking things down into well defined modules, shipping incrementally, and reusing code, were essential techniques. They seem much less important when AI is doing the work.
Is software library creation obsolete?
Writes will be slower though. That's the trade-off for all columnar tech in general. You can enjoy the savings for a read-only network and switch to classic networkx when you need to write.