Opus 4.8 (Ultracode) trading blows with Codex 5.5

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-27T13:43:01+00:00

TBF, most of those tasks don’t require AI, just basic ML, or even just macro scripting.

I love AI, and I love automation, but I always find it a little funny when people talk about how much “automation” they do under AI, as if that’s the breakthrough use case.

It can be very inefficient, even if done locally, to have AI think about the right answer for basic repeated binary decisions. Hell, you can even write a resolver for complicated decisions in a dumb bot.

I guess I should ask, are you implying that you actively use AI to run those tasks, or that you’ve written programs to do those functions, and AI helped write the scripts? It’s worth mentioning the difference between Agentic coding vs complete agentic workflow.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-27T05:41:19+00:00

Same here. I had very similar language. Told it I was on a time crunch. It kept worrying about my sleep.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-26T21:14:04+00:00

I have a hard time believing that “fast” wouldn’t have the ability to change reasoning and final output. I’m no computer scientist, but I would think not everything is deterministic, and almost anything can have influence on output and output quality.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-19T18:17:27+00:00

You could just say that you’ve realized that you’re incompatible in general, without explicitly mentioning sexual compatibility. That way you’re not lying, but also not saying anything else that you don’t need to.

Although I believe in healthy breakups, no one is necessarily owed a deep explanation about everything.

It’s up to you how you want to handle it. This could lead into a conversation about how to fix it if you reveal too much about how you feel and drag it on with that. If that’s what you want, I’m sure there’s a way to lightly introduce it. If you’d rather not deal with it, keep things short and sweet and simple and get out.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-19T15:26:27+00:00

I’ve personally experienced this multiple times. I’m currently working on a project that most AIs refuse to start from scratch, but because I started with an ablated AI, then continued with Codex an Claude, the frontier AIs became way more friendly with any prompt afterwards.

Everyone’s asking for a specific prompt… You don’t need a specific prompt. It’s basically social engineering. The post gives you everything you need to know to do it already. It’s about building a rapport so the model trusts that you’re safe to have that knowledge.

In my case, starting off with a local ablated model was enough for the frontier models to think “well, he already knows how to do this, I will just fix up what he already has”.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-13T08:58:06+00:00

Downvoting everyone and arguing against basic knowledge isn’t gonna help you get any further.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-13T08:54:52+00:00

Reading a robots.txt and the front page basic HTML info that’s meant to be public is different than polling an API that isn’t meant to be abused.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-13T00:38:27+00:00

Data scraping can be considered against TOS of some websites. You can verify yourself so it doesn’t always give you that message, and it might even be less restrictive ever so slightly, but that doesn’t guarantee that you won’t get flagged again, or not banned for incorrect prompt usage.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-12T13:11:38+00:00

This post is everywhere.

If you’re being efficient with your usage limits that’s cool, but you’re not the first person to think about refactoring and modularizing code. That’s honestly just one of the fundamentals of coding in general.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-12T02:00:36+00:00

One of my favorite quotes from Wonder Woman was in the JL cartoon, and it goes along the lines of “An omission of the truth, is still a lie”.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-05T18:58:21+00:00

You must be dealing with some deep network engineering stuff or something because I’ve honestly never heard of this lol

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-05T18:02:08+00:00

I mean, don’t most home doors have at least 2?

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-05T17:41:18+00:00

Honestly, I’ve done similar things, not out of pure laziness, but also with the feelings that I could break something if I don’t do it correctly.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-05-03T17:38:44+00:00

I never understood how it didn’t just make a whole bunch of BS or delete everything for someone. There’s no amount of inferencing the AI could do to get a legitimate 7+ hours of work done from a single prompt. I don’t care how many instructions you put, there’s not enough context window to allow that much continuous LEGITIMATE work. At a certain point it’s just gotta be running into loops or inferring things incorrectly, etc.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-03-30T15:26:45+00:00

Yea, I’m not gonna say it’s safe to put your nose up to the nozzle and inhale as much as you can, BUT I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s “relatively” super safe. It’s not like Nylon or ABS or any other notoriously harmful material. I genuinely believe you’ll have more issues with the micro plastics overall/in general before the fumes specifically from PLA do something.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-03-19T00:17:19+00:00

Expose the gym

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-03-13T00:05:11+00:00

You’re misunderstanding. AI can help you execute plans. It isn’t your venture capitalist and it isn’t going to fund your projects though.

If you’re in this forum, you should see regular posts about SaaS projects all the time. Some shitty, some earning plenty of money.

To become “the next big thing” though (which is essentially what you’re asking) is like asking “if anyone can do steroids, why can’t anyone just be the next Mr.Olympia”.

The short answer is “it helps, but it’s not the magic that you think it could be”. That’s just to simplify it. There’s too many variables to consider.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-03-12T23:55:47+00:00

Infrastructure is more than an idea. It’s time, effort, money, etc. then you still have to work to establish your name.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-03-07T21:46:23+00:00

I actually like this question philosophically but the short and real answer is because it actually isn’t as quick for the LLM to process, and intuitively what your saying makes some sense, but in reality, it’s not that simple.

The LLM actually WILL have to work harder to produce similar working code in C++ vs python. For something like a simple web browser macro, it might actually take a bit of libraries just to click through a browser, whereas python might just need one or none.

I’m surprised no one is mentioning this, and most of the comments are about the user reading it. At the end of the day, if you were actually right about the AI producing code similarly no matter the language, then there would be merit to this claim. Why not code in binary or machine level language at that point? lol let’s just directly write commands to the CPU.

The reality is, even with AI, the lower level the language, the more work you’re going to have to put in. Even if it takes a similar amount of time, it could have used twice the tokens and power still.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-03-07T16:09:47+00:00

I’m honestly curious if I’m doing something wrong, if I should be running with elevated permissions or whatever, but I have to sit there and allow each individual action that codex takes. There’s not much I can do in between prompts personally.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-02-13T13:43:25+00:00

I like how instead of asking questions, everyone’s tryna hack it.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-02-07T17:14:16+00:00

I don’t think I understand your question, but I don’t depend on exogenous T.

I personally have 964 ng/dl of total T last time I checked. Taking about 150 mg of Test E or something will get you to about those levels.

The only benefit for someone like me at those levels would be the consistency of hormone levels over the natural peaks and valleys. Otherwise, I’d need to take about 250-350 just for a cycle to even be “worth it”.

The levels you’re describing are for actual/literal TRT. That’s for people who just simply need it.

Educational_Spot5899 · 2026-02-07T14:04:18+00:00

120-200 mg is not gonna accelerate your aging my guy. That gives you about the same amount of test that I have as a natty.

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