eddiewithzato (u/eddiewithzato)

eddiewithzato commented on Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments aiengineering.report/p/cl... · Posted by u/waprin

mikeocool · 2 months ago

Reading the comments and posts about both Claude Code and Codex on Reddit (and often hacker news), it’s hard to imagine they’re not extremely astroturfed.

There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.

eddiewithzato · 2 months ago

Truthfully I find sonnet-4.5 better at Rust code than Codex (medium/high). Haven't tried anything else (like react/typescript) since I only use AI for issues/problems I don't understand.

eddiewithzato commented on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar... · Posted by u/ctoth

simonw · 2 months ago

It looks like Andrej's definition of "agent" here is an entity that can replace a human employee entirely - from the first few minutes of the conversation:

When you’re talking about an agent, or what the labs have in mind and maybe what I have in mind as well, you should think of it almost like an employee or an intern that you would hire to work with you. For example, you work with some employees here. When would you prefer to have an agent like Claude or Codex do that work?

Currently, of course they can’t. What would it take for them to be able to do that? Why don’t you do it today? The reason you don’t do it today is because they just don’t work. They don’t have enough intelligence, they’re not multimodal enough, they can’t do computer use and all this stuff.

They don’t do a lot of the things you’ve alluded to earlier. They don’t have continual learning. You can’t just tell them something and they’ll remember it. They’re cognitively lacking and it’s just not working. It will take about a decade to work through all of those issues.

eddiewithzato · 2 months ago

Because that's the definition that is leading to all these investments, the promise that very soon they will reach it. If Altman said plainly that LLMs will never reach that stage, there would be a lot less investment into the industry.

eddiewithzato commented on Vibe engineering simonwillison.net/2025/Oc... · Posted by u/janpio

eddiewithzato · 2 months ago

vibe engineering, spending so much time writing documentation for the prompt, just to spend more time debugging the slop you get.

Ill stick with writing code and just use AI for snippets/stackoverflow replacement.

eddiewithzato commented on AI Is Slowing Down Tracker aislowdown.replit.app/... · Posted by u/frozenseven

DrNosferatu · 4 months ago

AI has made FFmpeg easily usable to the mere mortal - that alone is a technological revolution.

eddiewithzato · 4 months ago

Yea so basically just a better search engine. Not what the VC were promised though

eddiewithzato commented on Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums forums.anandtech.com/... · Posted by u/kmfrk

5pl1n73r · 4 months ago

Just learned they've stopped publishing. Sad! The old web is really dying. Seems like a bug though? They said they'll keep the site up "indefinitely".

eddiewithzato · 4 months ago

Old web died when youtube reviews became more profitable.

It’s sad because I miss printed content like tech magazines.

eddiewithzato commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox

throwpoaster · 5 months ago

Extraction of natural diamonds can fund development of some of the poorest communities in the world. [0]

As the jewelry industry repositions around the uniqueness of natural diamonds I would expect to see more promotion of this kind of socially responsible production.

[0]: https://peacediamond.com/

eddiewithzato · 5 months ago

So can many other dangerous and environmentally exploited industries. Doesn’t mean it’s a good thing

eddiewithzato commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox

conductr · 5 months ago

My wife is in the retail side of this market and I’ve had a lot of second hand familiarity with the transition to lab grown.

What I find most interesting is the weight put on the ethical side. I think it’s overstated. When the issue became big, the Blood Diamond movie, sales of lab grown did not markedly increase. It took another decade or so to become more prevalent. What changed over that time is the price, IIRC the price was comparable to natural at the time the movie came out. Ethics were not compelling enough for most people at that price. When prices got about 50% of natural, it became much more compelling. Now that it’s around 10%, it’s practically so compelling that buying natural isn’t even a real consideration for many people.

Anyways, I think people use the Blood Diamond talking point as a socially acceptable reason- it’s what they tell their parents and grandparents who might judge them- but in reality it’s almost completely a financial decision. If the tables were turned and natural diamonds became 1/10th the cost of lab grown, the market would completely flip back practically overnight.

eddiewithzato · 5 months ago

Nah it’s also environmentally, mining is bad. And if there is an alternative with no mining, people will opt for that.

eddiewithzato commented on I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe stevensalzberg.substack.c... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

p1dda · 5 months ago

The author says that health insurance in Europe is provided by the govt and for most it still is, there are plenty of people getting private health insurance as the govt health sector is collapsing, so this argument is mute. Also, in the 23andme data is risk of getting hundreds of diseases, any private health insurance company would love to see this data to deny paying you any compensation, OBVIOUSLY. I have never given my DNA to any private company and I never would, if you have: delete it!

eddiewithzato · 5 months ago

Insurance company argument is always nonsense. They cannot use DNA. And if they could use DNA in the future, you would need to get your DNA sampled for the policy.

eddiewithzato commented on I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe stevensalzberg.substack.c... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

sorokod · 5 months ago

What is the benefit of leaving your data with 23andMe?

eddiewithzato · 5 months ago

For the same reason you bought the service in the first place? They update their service with new features and update their estimates

eddiewithzato commented on I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe stevensalzberg.substack.c... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

markx2 · 5 months ago

Data about me and what I click is one issue.

Data that can be used against my children is another.

My late wife had MS. It took her. Insurance companies would love that data to load against anything my kids do.

There are other issues but the fact is that companies will use DNA and every other data point they can to maximise what they take and minimise with loaded terms what they might, just might, maybe, pay out.

It's not about the now.

It's about the later.

eddiewithzato · 5 months ago

Insurance companies cannot use it. And if insurance companies in the future would be allowed to use it, they would require you to get DNA samples for your policy.

So it’s pointless in the end