Codex is pretty good. Its friction to switch but I think it’s sensible being across multiple AI toolchains.
replyNo friction in switching coding models.
replyPi mono.
replyNuff said
This is what I use now after testing others through 2025
replyIt has the most "UNIX" feel of a simple app that you compose the just right flow from and nothing more
Thing is, if you're using Codex, you're supporting Sam Altman and the idea of Sam Altmans, in the same way that if you use X or buy a Tesla, you're supporting Elon Musk and the idea of Elon Musks. That's a pretty big tax to factor into the usage of such products. If you even got 5% better coding results, would that make up for the future they're trying to build?
replyThe more Dario talks the less I want to have anything to do with his wares.
replyDario wants to replace you with AI as well. Don't be fooled into thinking he's your friend because he said no to Trump that one time. I'll remind you that Musk used to be the left's hero not too long ago.
replyI'm in the "AI could be good for humanity" camp, and in this camp, we believe that Dario/Anthropic is a radically better choice going forward than the alternatives at this moment. In this camp we are not 'fooled into thinking he's our friend because he said no to Trump that one time', we are evaluating the entire set of available information and figuring that Anthropic's the best bet.
replyAs for Musk ever being "the left"'s "hero" -- that's amazing, that's what Pauli would call 'not even wrong'.
Funny of you to bring up "humanity" while singing praise of the guy who's on record A-OK with aiding mass surveillance of anywhere not the U.S., and who's happy to help kill people but just wouldn't do it fully automatically, merely because he doesn't believe the tech is there yet. All while collaborating with Palantir.
replyIf by "the best bet" you mean slightly less shitty bet then maybe.
That’s approximately what I mean. Although in comparison to the alternatives of Altman and Musk, the distinction is stark and significant.
replyFor 96% of humanity it’s same difference.
replyI'm getting pretty close too, but I wouldn't switch to Codex I'd switch to one of the open agents that can use any backing LLM. My reasoning is that if I'm willing to pay the cost of the small changes in usage, I might as well switch to an open source agent that I can add my own convenience features to, like remote sessions and phone-based operation.
replyCodex is open source and allows any model to be configured.
replyMany thanks for that info!
replyWhy Codex when you can use something that hasn't been touched by Sam Altman? Surely, your drive to get the very best model isn't stronger than your sense of ethics?
replyCodex is not open source. And it's not even that extensible
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replyWhat would be subscription customers, no? Rather than Bedrock or per-api customers? Many of the companies running on Bedrock or by-use have per day limits above the max monthly subscription costs.
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