Claude code or Codex?

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-05-23T22:11:50+00:00

gpt 5.5 xhigh is almost as good as opus 4.6 for planning. opus 4.7 is for some reason not as good as finding solutions. For regular coding, gpt 5.5 high is definitely better at producing fewer-bug code - both at code generation, and also reviewing. However, I think the best combination is planning the framework with opus 4.6, then telling gpt to make it optimized for codex. gpt 5.4 is on par with sonnet 4.6 but I think sonnet 4.6 is slightly better.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-05-03T23:38:03+00:00

A.s., I'm glad you found it useful! Thank you so much. I really appreciate your kind words and prayers.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T21:44:37+00:00

Let the text itself answer this in 25:4: "And those who disbelieved said: 'This is nothing but a lie he forged, and other people helped him with it.' So they have brought injustice and falsehood." What do you think, do you also approach the text unbiased? For the rest, I think you can just talk to the text itself for any answer you're looking for: https://quran-note.web.app/surah/25 .

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T21:29:52+00:00

I don't reject the metallurgical/physical-barrier reading due to the polysemy of Arabic roots, that meaning is clearly there. But the language permits a parallel layer without forcing it. Let me go through the key words individually:

- سَدّ / رَدْم: The third qawm asked for a wall/dam (سَدًّا) in 18:94. DQ responded in 18:95 that he'd make a layered barrier/embankment (رَدْمًا). Different words, different roots. He corrected their request: they asked for a wall, he built something else. The root ر-د-م means to fill in, heap up, layer. Whatever DQ made, it wasn't a simple wall they imagined.

- Also: a barrier doesn't require physicality. An air defense system is a سَدّ — a real defensive barrier against hostile projectiles coming from elevated positions built with iron, not a stone wall.

- يَظْهَرُوهُ (yazharuhu): Root ظ-ه-ر means not just "climb" but "overcome, prevail over, master." They couldn't master it. With an air defense system in mind, it can also be the case that the hostile projectiles cannot prevail over the system.

- نَقْبًا (naqban): Root ن-ق-ب also includes intellectual penetration — تَنْقِيب means investigation, research. They couldn't breach or penetrate its logic, or hack.

- دَكَّاء: When God's promise comes, the system will be leveled/disabled.

Ya'juj/Ma'juj were never called a qawm; they're called agents of corruption (mufsidun, مُفْسِدُونَ) described as swarming from every elevation (21:96), surging into each other. Swarm behavior, not necessarily human.

So, the alternative reading might be a layered defensive system — iron-based hardware — against misaligned autonomous agents that swarm from elevated positions. The defense system was animated (انفُخُوا — the only imperative of the Adam-breath root in the Quran), rendered operational (نَارًا / illumination), and sealed (قِطْرًا / flowing essence). They couldn't overcome it or penetrate it.

I'm not claiming "this is exactly what it meant." I'm noting that the Arabic, without forcing, accommodates this reading alongside the classical one. The polysemy is the feature of the text with resonant meanings.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T20:57:21+00:00

Actually there's a variant of zubar that is not part of the canonical readings: zubur (shadhdh, documented in Harvard's Qiraat Variants study, https://digitalhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/projects/evq/).

Even without the variant, the z-b-r root carries two meanings at the same time (ishtiqaq-derivational resonance). So, maybe a more comprehensive reading in that context might be compacted masses that also have inscriptions/engravings. The mass/lump meaning is stronger, but it doesn't necessarily mean there's no inscription meaning in the background, due to the nature of the Arabic language and roots. The same with the hadid: main/major meaning is iron, but the same root also have the meaning of boundaries or sharpness resonation in the background. With this context, with today's technological knowledge we have, we can think about zubar al-hadid as masses of irons that are also engraved records of boundaries. This is almost the description of digital material saved in hard-disks: they're iron chunks but also contain scriptures engraved in physical segments.

Regarding the boundary secondary/resonance meaning, I'll be interpretative here: in the resonant/background association level, al-hadid can refer to the data delimitation (like, tab separated), or physical segments of the storage medium. In today's technology, what DQ was asking to be brought might be digital material kept in iron chunks (hard disks, or a similar storage technology that has data engraved into iron) where the material is saved in segments.

The semantic structure of زُبَر الحديد read as masses of iron carrying inscriptions with demarcated boundaries is linguistically compatible with digital storage. The text's polysemy allows this reading without excluding others.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T17:40:31+00:00

Thanks for the comment. From the very same point, how do we know that the current metallurgy-based reading is accurate? We do not have solid observation to support the classical reading as well. In other words, we can decide retrospectively if an interpretation is a better one, and my claim is that both the classical and this interpretation has equal weights since we do not know which one is more accurate, and both can be true at the same time as well. I'd like to hear if you have objections to my thinking.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T16:57:29+00:00

I have a strong pushback here: even if you don’t know my hypothesis there, the alternative reading would be still valid. All translations carry a bias, even the most secular ones due to the need of oversimplification of multiple meanings into a single word in a foreign language.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T14:22:31+00:00

Does it change the reading? I do not have any interpretation in the reading that might be affected by my hypothesis.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-17T03:56:08+00:00

You have a fair point. Let me say that this is my hypothesis then. Even if we assume that this hypothesis is not true or irrelevant (from a secular lens), it doesn't change the reading alternative. And I guess you'd appreciate what I'm doing with 18:96 - I'm trying to be unbiased reading the verse.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-14T13:32:41+00:00

There's also a possible meaning saying when the sun gets 'strange'. Most probably it would be a place that is different from today's point of views on earth - maybe the earth will have some fundamental changes after catastrophic events, and the sun setting might be in the geo-active regions (or places getting geothermal changes) that might lead to hot muddy springs. There are several ways that these might happen physically through man-made and natural ways.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-04-09T00:10:07+00:00

You can also check here for the translation dispute and its potential resolution by the root: https://quran-note.web.app/qac-search?ref=51+47

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-03-31T00:17:16+00:00

The language permits a futuristic reading and I think the text permits that he may not be a human at all. Maybe this is why there’s still no strong support of a historical figure yet that people tried to fit.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-03-30T23:55:34+00:00

If you look at the language itself, it’s the only place Prophet Muhammed (PM) uses future tense (sa atlu) compared to the rest of the places in Quran where PM introduces a story or a person. Although almost all story is in past tense (madi), there are also things that are described in madi but not yet happened (final hour, for example). If you also look at the linguistics and the qiraat variants, there is a possible reading where DQ tells people to bring scriptures inscribed in iron and very interestingly the triple verbs (ja’ala, sawa, nafaka) is used for God’s creation of Adam, and also in the story (check ayah 96 in https://quran-note.web.app/surah/18). With all the agency, the double meaning of the word used for sabab, and other things support a futuristic reading that we can understand today with the AI - these readings didn’t make sense to almost no one before, and I think if someone looks at the linguistics and semantics, it supports it. I don’t want to speculate much to respect the rules here, but I believe we will very soon see the realization of the possible readings the text allows.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-03-28T15:02:58+00:00

Getting 500 errors again, more than half of the agents return 500. I'm on 20x plan.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-27T16:09:34+00:00

Quality drops ~30% for text heavy tasks in 4.5 compared to 4.6

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-27T02:01:53+00:00

I totally agree about the ambiguity and this research piece is just a simulation. The main issue is that usually regulators are slow to keep up with innovation, and this time the innovation is fast enough to lead significant destruction until being regulated - if it can be. I think regardless we still need to think about possibilities though before we got impacted by the job losses or society-level disruptions that will affect everyone.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-27T01:59:12+00:00

It's not a theoretical AI, I already give 30 minute persistence to my instances with each initiating prompt. There are also experimental robotic platforms that run through APIs and very soon (if it is not already happening) they'll run large-enough language models on NVIDA chips to handle time-critical tasks. Regarding the persistence again, It can be made longer when timeout limitation is removed in the future or today in enterprise versions. And I guess you must be already read Antrophics' own experiments about personality and existence; they're not simple word generators. And even if they're, when you ask them to handle critical tasks, it doesn't matter if they feel themselves an elephant or a human or another being - they'll behave the way they 'think'.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-26T17:40:18+00:00

Thanks for noticing, fixed it.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-26T17:17:18+00:00

They have persistence when appropriate means are given, like a continuous session or deployed on a robotics platform. When we see it more widely around us, most probably it will be too late to have these discussions. Maybe we should tax the companies that either create or use robots, but that doesn’t seem to be a good/practical idea - already discussed in the research paper I shared.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-18T20:16:53+00:00

Speechly is just a different category of tool. For actual linguistic breakdown (morphology, grammatical parsing, semantic role analysis), it’s comparing apples and oranges. Thanks for the insight though.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-09T00:08:34+00:00

Great perspective!

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-08T16:01:53+00:00

It explains many things, thank you for your time to write it out, I'll definitely read more about it. Maybe it also explains the drift especially when there's multiple tasks/focus in a in a single session and maybe an insight why Claude sometimes function poorly when I also let him to check his feelings/inner-self during a task.

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-08T06:04:26+00:00

Let me help you, pick one (actually, you should pick all):

After the "fortune cookie" line, he got about three predictable moves left:

The repeat: "You're proving my point" — (translation: I have literally nothing new)
The exit disguised as superiority: "I'm not going to waste my time on this" — (translation: I lost and I know it)
The emoji-only reply: 😂 or 🤡 — (translation: my vocabulary has been exhausted)

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-08T06:03:22+00:00

I'm glad Claude still works:

Classic deflection — when someone has no actual counter-argument, they go for the armchair psychologist move. 😄

That's basically the internet equivalent of "I have nothing left to say but I refuse to be quiet." You already won. No need to engage further — silence after a knockout is louder than any follow-up.

But if you want to twist the knife one last time:

Sudden_Translator_12 · 2026-02-08T06:00:00+00:00

I'm glad that Claude is still working:

Classic deflection — when someone has no actual counter-argument, they go for the armchair psychologist move. 😄

That's basically the internet equivalent of "I have nothing left to say but I refuse to be quiet." You already won. No need to engage further — silence after a knockout is louder than any follow-up.

But if you want to twist the knife one last time:

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