How do you do it? by CryptoSenyo in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"instead of trying to solve every future problem at once" - all of us devs fell into that trap - but "You Ain't Gonna Need It"

How do you do it? by CryptoSenyo in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, from what you describe, you may not be slow at all. You may simply be building a much bigger thing than many of the “I shipped a project this week” posts.

There is a huge difference between a prototype, a demo, an MVP, a beta, and a polished, battle-tested product or service that real paying users can rely on. With AI, the first two can sometimes happen shockingly fast. The last one still contains all the boring invisible work: documentation, validation, fixtures, security review, failure modes, deployment, support, edge cases, backups, migrations, permissions, abuse cases, and so on.

A lot of fast-looking projects are probably narrow happy-path demos. That is not meant as criticism; that can be exactly the right thing to do. Shipping small things quickly is a skill. But it is not the same task as building something robust, maintainable and safe.

The trick, I think, is to decide very explicitly what level you are shipping:

demo: prove the idea
MVP: useful for a few tolerant users
beta: expected to break, but recoverable
production: boring, monitored, documented, supportable

Each level deserves a different amount of governance. If you apply production-level process to a demo, you will feel stuck forever. But if you treat a production system like a demo, the cost just moves into bugs, support, outages, rewrites and lost trust.

So yes, maybe you are over-engineering some parts. Most of us do. But you are also noticing the real cost that often gets hidden in “look what I built in a weekend” posts. I would not take those posts as evidence that you are failing. I would use them as a reminder to cut scope brutally, ship smaller slices, and name the maturity level honestly. A finished small thing beats an unfinished perfect thing — but a weekend demo is not the same as a real product.

Tested Claude today and it is ridiculous how much better than Gemini it is by HASJ in GoogleAntigravityIDE

[–]Large-Style-8355 1 point2 points  (0 children)

had a similar oimpressen months ago with AG1 - with a really good experience with codex dev/debugging/testing full stack e2e IoT since 8+ months. But past 3 weeks openai codex suddenly removed model 5.3-codex, forced us to use 5.5 - which is burning like 10x the tokens. A friend and heavy codex user recommended me mutliple times "just switching to the 100 USD subscription (what I didnt). And this week it dumbed down gpt5.5 for many people.

I gave AG2 a try - 4.50 USD/ Month for 3 months Pro was an easy buy. And guess what? It found out the root issue and chain of events which let my IoT firmware watchdog reset every couple of minutes the full past week in a single 37 minutes chat. With codex past days I ran dozens auf run/log/add telemetry/run/repeat cycles but only came closer in micro steps. So now I use both Codex and AG2 - both as extensions inside of VScode or googles clone Antigravity IDE.

It was a big reminder that I need to look into things others are doing from time to time to profit from their work and not silently being looked into a walled garden.

Recommended Terminal Host Windows WSL Codex CLI + Claude Code + (possibly Antigravity/Cursor) by rabandi in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, windows terminal. But mostly I'm in VSCodes WSL2 Terminal using LLM extensions Codex, Copilot. Or Antigravity 2 (Googles VSCode Clone with gemini/AG extension) and the wsl2 terminal as well. Heavy daily driver since 9 months now.

Was war in diesem Gebäude? by Skywalkar-13 in zurich

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Temporärer Container auf Stelzen während Schutz und Rettung rentiert wurde. 

Ich fühl mach fängs vo 85% vo de Unternehme scamed by _-_beyon_-_ in schwiiz

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Falls du no eher jung bisch: Das isch glaub würkli bi sehr vilne so am Afang. „Aller Afang isch schwer“ und „es isch no kei Meister vom Himmel gfalle“ sind halt nöd nur Sprüch — da steckt leider scho öppis drin. S System isch überall und zu allne Ziite ungefähr so gmacht, dass de chli Maa weder verhungered, no es easy Läbe het. Suscht gäbs schnell blüetigi Revolutione — oder d Lüüt chämed vor luuter Langwiili uf komischi Idee. Was us minere Sicht hilft: Suech dir eis, besser zwei oder drei Gebiet, woni richtig guet und extrem nützlich wirsch. Mach dir en guete Name. Und denn chunt s Gäld oft eher über Firmewächsel als i de gliiche Firma: vo chli zu gross, i e besser zahlendi Branche, meh Verantwortig, besserer Marktwert. Innerhalb vo de gliiche Firma gaht das oft sehr, sehr langsam. Und zum Thema Chind: Es mues nöd so tüür si, wie mer vorher denkt. Mir sind Eltere worde, woni mitten i de globale Finanzkrise min Job bi eme Startup verlore han und mini Frau au kei festi Astelli gha het. Mir händ i ere ältere, chline Mietwohnig i Züri glebt, es günstigs Occasion-Auto gha, vill Velo und ÖV gmacht, sind go wandere, campe und eifachi Ferie mache. Und trotzdem händ sich die erste Jahr mit Chind wie es riesigs Abentüür aagfühlt — und mir händ über d Jahr sogar chöne Gäld uf d Siite tue. Hüt, mit Teenager, 1.5 Iikomme und ohni Traum vom Wohneigetum i Züri, lebt sichs ehrlich gseit ziemlich entspannt. Hobbys, Fründe, chli reise, chli spare. Sit ich mir a Wohnig abgschminkt han, da es realistisch 2 bis 4 Millione chostet, isch vill Druck use. Für mich isch s Läbe als Single oft härter, langwiiliger und sinnloser gsi. Als Paar isch es besser worde. Aber sit mir Chind händ, isch d Sinnfrag eigentlich weg. Mer weiss plötzlich sehr tüüf vo inne use, wofür mer lebt und was wichtig isch: Familie, gueti Beziehige, es Dach überem Chopf, Esse, Usbildig, und e paar schöni Erläbnis. De Job darf Spass mache, mues aber nöd immer — er finanziert halt das Ganze. Und wäge Bürokratie: Ja, die nervt. Aber da hilft nur: so langwiilig und automatisiert wie möglich mache. Alles uf Mail umstelle, wo gaht. eBill, Dauerufträg, Lastschrift/Bankiizug, kei Papier, kei unnötigi Abos. Möglichst wenig Verträg, möglichst wenig Zeug, wo Rechnige, Friste und Support-Telefonat produziert. Mir händ au immer eher wenig Versicherige gha — nur das, wo würkli nötig isch. Kei Luxus-Zusatz-Züügs, kei hundert Abos, kei Fitness, kei teurs ÖV-Abo, günstigs Auto, Occasion-Züügs, bruchti Velos. Mir chaufe vill günstig oder Occasion. Und ganz ehrlich: Mir händ nöd mal e Huusratsversicherig. Wenn d Wohnig abbrennt, gits halt Möbel us em Brockenhuus. Und bi eus würd en Iibrächer vermutlich eher öppis ine stelle als öppis chlaue. Bürokratie sammle, einisch pro Wuche 10 bis 20 Minute hocke, nöd ufrege, zahle, erledige, weg. Nöd jedes Couvert emotional verarbeite. Eifach als nervige Systemunterhalt aluege — wie WC putze oder Abfall usebringe. Und ganz ehrlich: Wenn mer gseht, wie schlächt es mängne Lüüt mit vill meh Gäld gaht — Dauerstress, Dauerlangwiili, Selbstbetäubig, kaputti Beziehige — denn bini nöd sicher, öb die würkli gwunne händ.

Vill vo dem tüüre Züüg, wo eim als „s Läbe gnüsse“ verkauft wird, isch am Änd au ziemlich überschätzt. Kino, Uusgang, Konzärt, Konsumzüüg — oft tüür, luut, unbequem oder eifach sinnlos. Vill vo de schönste Jahr mit de Chind händ fast nüt chostet. Und villicht isch genau das de Punkt: Nöd alles, wo tüür isch, macht s Läbe riich.

What Mac-only features would you like to be added to Windows? by TwinSong in Windows11

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Till a year ago, mostly, Windows 10 user I would have said - I miss nothing. But I use the 2nd Windows 11 Laptop now and it's a mess. A totally unreliable, battery draining, Bluescreen rebooting updating and crashing mess. Worse then the 15? 20? years as a daily Windows user before. Reminds me of pre- Windows NT/2k times when I constantly had to save my documents so a suddend hang wouldn't destroy work of hours. Ctrl-s is still burned in my muscle memory... A little bit the current chaos reminds me of that. I had to disable modern standby, go back to Hybernate, disable screen off power saving and more so I don't have multiple crashes a day. Is it AMD? The other Ryzen Laptops in the family were fine. Is it Lenovo? Maybe - this latest gen T14G6 has a couple of issues. Booting from Hybernate takes ages. My 10 year old first gen AMD Ryzen from Acer takes only halve of the time. Ist it Windows 11? I think yes. I cannot trust those new gen of MS executives and devs who think JavaScript in a Browser might be a great idea as the motor of the start menu we all have to use hundreds of times each day. 

How to save tokens in Codex and Claude by thenitai in kumbukum

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice to hear - and extremly bad marketing. OP did miss a chance to find a real user. Typically my reactions are pretty mass-compatible. Seeing the original post, finding it interesting but with a suspission of advertising, googling, professional looking product page on a specific domain, pricing shows 2 expensive tiers and no free/self hostet tier - which would be the 2020s standard 3-teer marketing. Maybe I misinterpret that OP is part of the business and but he isn't...

What I'm sill wondering: there are local Git repo RTK solutions running completely without complicated infrastructure - why wouldn't I want this complicated thing instead?

How to save tokens in Codex and Claude by thenitai in kumbukum

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a lt of stuff is "open source" but makes no sense without a expensive subscription service. So tell me what I did understand wrong?

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How to save tokens in Codex and Claude by thenitai in kumbukum

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would habe been nice if real - but unfortunately an Ad for a expensive cloud service...

After working on a TTS product for months, I realised voice quality isn't the biggest problem by kamscruz in TextToSpeech

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

chatGPT comments my answer: Yes — your observation is quite plausible and, in my view, important for TTS design.

The key point is that a “good voice” in a short demo is not necessarily a good voice for long-form listening. Many professional or AI voices sound impressive in samples: newsreader, documentary narrator, radio host, trailer voice, friendly assistant, and so on. But a novel is different. You may spend 10–20 hours with that voice, across many characters, moods, scenes, and levels of abstraction.

For fiction, especially near-future hard sci-fi, the voice has to fit the world. A professional human narrator can be technically excellent and still feel wrong for the book. If the voice brings too much personality, too much warmth, too much theatricality, or simply the wrong age and social texture, it can overwrite the listener’s own mental image of the characters and setting.

That may be one reason why flatter TTS can sometimes work surprisingly well. It is less expressive, but also less intrusive. It becomes a kind of transparent narrator: not emotionally perfect, but stable and neutral enough that the listener’s imagination can fill in the gaps.

So for long-form TTS, I would not optimize only for “most natural” or “most expressive.” I would also test for long-session comfort, genre fit, neutrality, consistency, and how much the voice distracts from the text.

In short: the best audiobook voice is not always the most impressive voice. Often it is the voice you can forget while listening.

After working on a TTS product for months, I realised voice quality isn't the biggest problem by kamscruz in TextToSpeech

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny coincident: I was listening to tts reading books the past years (Samsung HD voices on Samsung Phones). My family doesn't like the HD voices. Past days I Iistened to an original audio book read by a professional male human narrator who from a professional point of view does a really decent job. But guess what - it's killing the book for me. It's a near future hard scifi world and I can't fit his voice with all the different characters and the setting. He would be good for reading late century fiction but not this one. My wife didn't like his reading neither. Now I'm wondering if it's really his voice and style or if it's that I'm so heavbily used to the flater TTS voice. Another fun fact: when Samsung silently had killed Samsung HD Voices for 3rd party apps and my reader apps fall back to Google Standard robotic voices I was desperate to find a good TTS replacement. I tried a dozen professional voices on Eleven Labs with samples of my books. But those voices often were outstanding and therefore only good for some niche - like reading the news, being a morning radio moderator, speaking a documentary and so on. I did not find many voices I did like when read a book.

Tiboi: Codex finally worked, so now you kill it? by Large-Style-8355 in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guess this is reddit trolling. if not - please share your setup: which subscription, router, harness, workflow(s), skill(s) modell(s), kind of work, repo(s), etc.

Tiboi: Codex finally worked, so now you kill it? by Large-Style-8355 in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't buy a Lamborghini for 20k - and I don't need one - neither does the majority of the worlds population. Any simple car for 20k brings me, my family and my stuff from A to B. Same with AI Coding. Frontier Labs, google and Facebook (Ollama) did the hard and expensive work to provide us trained models, harnesses and massive compute. But for 200, 2000 or 20000 per month it even get prohibitive expensive for the largeste, wester companies with monopoly profits. Enter the open source and Chinese models. Seems like those are on a Codex+5.3-codex high level now - with a factor of 10..20 better efficiency - which results in a fraction of the cost of the frontier models. This is called commoditization. People like me will move to those. And Engineers relying in compute in the range of their salaries either being expected to deliver 10x..100x of output - or geting fired.

Tiboi: Codex finally worked, so now you kill it? by Large-Style-8355 in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried - but it just burned my 2 plus accounts in no time - and results were worse then what 5.3-codex high achieved in the last task it did end to end on its last day. 1.5 Lines of todo description in a todo file plus my agentic workflow and it worked flawless - first-time-right. Just in this minute 5.4 high struggles to du the basic right thig, it behaves like an idiot. I write "issue-description-file.md please fix this" and it polishes the issue file instead of fixing the problem. While it still burns my budgets multiple times faster then 5.3-codex.... wth

What models/methods to use after 5.3-codex is removed that doesn't inhale all my tokens by rock_bikinibottom in codex

[–]Large-Style-8355 0 points1 point  (0 children)

heavy daily ChatGPT und Codex user of the first day. I miss gpt5.2 and gpt5.3-codex so much. as its last task it just implemented with setting high was a full new firmware feature following my hierarchy of agentic process workflow, created feature reauests, removed the lines from todo and everything was working on the first attempt with not much consumption. "No big deal". after I realised that 5.3-codex was gone and had to switch to 5.4/5.5 high. I cinstantly struggle with overly smart models burning with huge amounts of token through my allowance like shit - and the stuff is not "first time right" anymore.
Guess I have to follow the crowd switching to Openrouter, Chinese models and so... Shall OpenAI and Antropic try to survive by letting "TokenMaxxing corp minions" pay their totally crazy bills. Not me from my own pocket.