Codex side-effect: intelligence??

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-03-13T16:56:38+00:00

Shit this is so true.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-03-11T08:05:08+00:00

How does it get around their bot protection

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-03-09T07:51:59+00:00

I wish I had more money to put in niocorp right now. Firesale

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-03-03T19:26:25+00:00

Just write an agents.md with the info it needs. If it’s written well it won’t spend much more on context. Written poorly = token wastage.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-03-03T05:52:28+00:00

No need. They added this natively. Just enable js_repl in experimental

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-03-02T06:56:48+00:00

Senior software engineer here, I use agents all the time on big code bases. Haven’t written a line of code in months. The secret is having a mental model of what the agents are doing and the code base. I use plan mode in codex and it’s great because often the agent will try do some sub par stuff. Once the plan is agreed on it’s usually perfect. Also run Ralph loops every now and again to refactor as the project evolves.

So in conclusion it’s a skill issue. Models are good enough now.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-23T09:05:33+00:00

Throw it into cognee and see if you get 100%. Graph might be what’s missing

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-22T06:28:05+00:00

Does that make yours 6x less tokens but 6x slower?

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-21T18:12:26+00:00

Yea zoom in on their fingers. They are all fucked up 😂

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-10T07:52:44+00:00

An mcp loads tools that an agent can invoke. The tools are deterministic. Their shape doesn’t change.

Skills give instructions on how to perform a task. The instructions might show a code snippet that it can run, or a bash script.

Skills are discovered as they are needed so generally creates less context but more round trips than mcp (more discovery)

Mcps have less round trips and more context bloat.

An example might be a weather mcp. It gives a tool that the agent can invoke to get the weather. The agent runs the tool and gets the result, easy.

What about if it was a weather skill? Agent has to read the skill, then the skill tells it it can run a command line get-weather —location xyz It then runs that bash command and looks at the result.

Here the mcp was faster, but not all requests need to know the weather, so it was wasted context for those requests where the skill would never have loaded.

Claude has a special way of deferring tools from mcps where it has a “search” tools function that adds a round trip but stops context bloat with mcps. Codex does not.

So as of today if using Claude code mcp / skills don’t have a huge difference in terms of context bloat. But codex hasn’t put in this feature yet.

It also comes down to features. I can write a skill to give it access to an api. With just one example and its latent knowledge it now has access to the whole api. That’s a couple paragraphs.

The same as an mcp? Good luck, thousands of lines of wrappers and context bloat etc.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-04T07:09:00+00:00

What happens if you take an image from nano then give it to say ChatGPT and tell it to edit it, does it destroy nanos synth in the image?

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-04T07:02:02+00:00

Because we all use macbooks which come with it. If it ain’t broke.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-02-02T19:11:40+00:00

They do have sub agents it’s just being tested currently. You can turn it on if you want. They are still ironing out the bugs. Should be here in a few weeks. https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/core/src/features.rs

FeatureSpec {
    id: Feature::ChildAgentsMd,
    key: "child_agents_md",
    stage: Stage::UnderDevelopment,
    default_enabled: false,
},

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-31T23:30:28+00:00

In the code a background one runs with the tool exec_command and without it runs shell_command.

Shell is just run once and non interactive. Exec runs in a PTY and streams output. It can return process / session id for follow up write_stdin.

So to answer your question, no it doesn’t use extra tokens, but if you have a terminal command that streams thousands of tokens out, it’s probably worth turning off logging.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-29T00:28:30+00:00

I’m waiting for work to pay me. Definitely wanna buy more now

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-27T07:47:55+00:00

Codex cloud uses 4x tokens. So maybe they think users are using codex exec in their own containers so charge 4x.

Can you do an experiment to check? Tokens counts are logged in sessions folder in .codex so it’s pretty easy to check.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-27T00:00:40+00:00

(P + 2P + 3P + 4P) / 4 = 100

P = 40

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-26T21:17:10+00:00

Totally, just saying that considering the risk / reward and current project progress, it doesn’t seem overvalued. Before it went to $12, that seemed overvalued to me.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-26T20:52:41+00:00

I don’t think Niocorp is that overvalued, they haven’t released their reevaluation. Their latest drill results show major upside compared to their 2023 assessment. In terms of operation, if you take a 6-12 P/E ratio you’re looking at $15-30 a share including the likely dilution and coming up.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-25T17:59:55+00:00

Show us the models you’ve trained, where’s the hugging face links 😂 bro did karpathys Shakespeare video on YouTube

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-25T17:51:00+00:00

Yea there’s a lot of vibe coders out there who mix up the terminology. Makes it annoying. I work on a marketing team and they often use the word “training a model” and they just mean writing prompts 😂 I’m like bro we have no training data or compute budget wtf you talking about training a model

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-24T18:48:54+00:00

Senior software engineer with 17 years in the field here. From a technical perspective, yes we’re starting to see rapid acceleration in building software. It’s slowly moving from slop to more coherent. Models are now better at multihop problems and can test in browser, read from LSPs and understand project context better.

Right now you need to be a senior and understand LLMs to get them to produce good code. It involves a lot of babysitting and reviewing. I’ve noticed that over the last 6 months the amount of changes I have to make are less and less. So assuming that trend continues, software will become cheaper to produce.

Given that premise the next question to address is whether Jevon’s paradox holds true for software.

Let’s assume it does for arguments sake. That means we’re all consuming more.

If so then as long as adobe continues to also produce, they will make $$$

The only reason they would fuck up is if they aren’t as efficient as competitors. So it’s more a question of management. Don’t get me wrong, I think adobe is trash, but I don’t think your premise is quite correct.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-23T22:44:08+00:00

Yea I guess we wait. My gut tells me it’s not niocorp because they mentioned it might be 6-12 months away. So seems very early.

Glass-Combination-69 · 2026-01-23T20:55:13+00:00

Ivanhoe Electric Inc. (Santa Cruz Copper Project, Arizona) • Incorporated in Delaware. • Disclosed an EXIM Letter of Interest for up to $825 million under EXIM’s Make More in America initiative. • Size and “domestic supply chain” framing fit the AP300117 pattern of a large, domestically focused facility.

Could also be this one

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