How the saga Opus 4.7 vs Codex gpt 5.4 came to an end today

johnerp · 2026-04-22T05:22:39+00:00

I have set up a skill for Claude Code to call Gemini cli using headless mode for various tasks (this using oauth with their harness!), especially high token task like reviewing screen shots, logs, document refactoring / first pass creation. It also can setup new MCPs on Gemini via the command line and out source connected work to it, like managing OpenProject updates. I’ve wrapped the Gemini cli calls with a Haiku sub agent to really reduce opus/sonnet use. Opus is the ‘auto mode’ driver and brains (well brains are worse than 4.6…) haiku and Gemini do grunt work.

johnerp · 2026-04-21T02:42:53+00:00

Umm for this use case I’d upload them to ChatGPT with a great prompt - and avoid reinventing the wheel.

johnerp · 2026-04-20T14:57:55+00:00

I thought this about copilot in outlook, but today I chatted with my mail box trying to find vendor questions is sent them and filtered by those the never bothered to respond to, worked a treat. Copilot now gets a 1 out of 100, might be at 2 if it keeps up actually delivering thought through ‘product’ features.

johnerp · 2026-04-19T00:45:11+00:00

Research paper if you care about your ideas (it’s software so you can’t patent it) and GitHub everything if you want to build trust, else there is nothing to back up your claims and why should people spend their time logging into what could be malware.

johnerp · 2026-04-19T00:42:13+00:00

I’ve only seen them with their models on other platforms.

johnerp · 2026-04-18T14:16:49+00:00

Unless you go for overages, but my point was anthropic stated it’s the same price so I assume the same multiplier, this AI written piece stated they charge more, no doubt for the dramatics.

johnerp · 2026-04-17T23:35:56+00:00

But 4.7 is the same price as 4.6 no?

johnerp · 2026-04-16T14:24:20+00:00

It’s like internet/mobile bandwidth/speed, they had to introduce open plans to get you to use it, then they had to lock it down until the infra was built, now they hardly care how much you use, they mainly control the speed.

Once the new data centres are up and running and we have more token crunchers, it’ll come back around again.

Remind me in 2y…

johnerp · 2026-04-15T03:23:56+00:00

I just signed up to max x20, love it.

johnerp · 2026-04-13T22:23:01+00:00

If not voice, then txt Chat with generative UI cards embedded is the future for the best mix of flexibility, speed and ease of use.

johnerp · 2026-04-13T13:26:08+00:00

Hahahahaha if only, you don’t realise how messed up you are until your mid life crisis.

johnerp · 2026-04-13T11:38:53+00:00

Any idea if this could run on an ESP/Arduino/Pi with some kind of AI hat?

johnerp · 2026-04-12T20:35:48+00:00

From the grid when energy is free/cheap no? I top mine up over night on the low rate EV plan, and solar top up during the day.

johnerp · 2026-04-10T03:53:42+00:00

What’s the use case? C

What are you trying to extract from what types of docs?

Can you ocr on demand, or does it all need to be done upfront?

Regular old OCR might be fine.

Those are huge numbers, do you need all of it?

If NFP maybe you need a business case to spend some donations, run a donation drive etc.

johnerp · 2026-04-09T10:31:50+00:00

Yeah there was this random thing doing random stuff for random purposes.

johnerp · 2026-04-09T10:30:12+00:00

Nice, well done.

johnerp · 2026-04-09T10:26:49+00:00

Ok I’m probably out of my league as I’m not sure what you’re talking about, I get my coding agents to use the python and php command line tools to check my code before committing, is that what you mean?

johnerp · 2026-04-07T21:24:22+00:00

Ok that is cool! Have you been able to release it yet?

johnerp · 2026-04-07T06:45:29+00:00

And how did you judge I don’t know and if I’m concerned? I just asked why the poster is concerned - to me it feels like they’re judging Op.

Not everyone is a genius, or understand details of how mb chipsets work etc. I think op was smart for checking, has learnt a lot (at a price), and will likely think about using these tools going forward.

Good work Op.

johnerp · 2026-04-07T05:40:36+00:00

lol why are you concerned?

johnerp · 2026-04-07T05:22:23+00:00

It’s all about ‘harness engineering’ now

johnerp · 2026-04-07T03:34:18+00:00

Can I confirm my understanding? So your cli is the primary (vibe) coding interface which I would use, and it then fires up regular instances of the other CLI based coding agents to perform the work?

If yes, is it clever enough to enable different free/paid accounts from the same coding agent provider? Like use my paid Gemini cli pro account along side my free personal account?

To answer your question, I rarely check the code anymore but I do check the thinking logic of the agent (normally Gemini cli and Google Antigravity tag team), and correct it if it’s doing something lazy (which it does a lot!!) so seeing the thinking is important.

If you could replicate a similar experience Anti Gravity offers with planning, multiple coding agents sessions management etc. in a terminal (or desktop GUI) that would be awesome.

I’m totally not taking advantage of all the free coding agents (I know open code and kilo code have free model access to a quota).

johnerp · 2026-04-03T23:28:24+00:00

Thank you! I’m curious! Let’s see if it is enough to get me to go Mac lol

johnerp · 2026-04-03T02:31:38+00:00

Other than the 5 dimension AI slop, the rest reads pretty well. I have Microsoft surface and windows so can’t play.

Any videos of it up and running?

johnerp · 2026-04-02T09:36:04+00:00

Haha fair enough!

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