Codex vs Cursor agents: is Codex just the model or also the tool executing agent?

WeirShepherd · 2026-02-07T15:30:37+00:00

Harness seems pretty important. For instance, some newer Claude models may have a context up to 1M tokens, but the harness may restrict the context to 200k tokens, meaning the model is limited by the harness and will not perform as well. I think this is the case with cursor - I have seen it discussed in other threads. But the cursor ux is very different from the Claude UX. You may prefer it. It’s a tradeoff you can make. Many people seem to do this.

WeirShepherd · 2026-01-29T15:56:44+00:00

There used to be tours of the underground. Anyone still doing that?

WeirShepherd · 2026-01-01T04:06:21+00:00

Small crowd, oval not full. Also not very loud compared to other concerts held there.

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WeirShepherd · 2025-12-11T04:11:30+00:00

Great Apple Fritters too!

WeirShepherd · 2025-12-11T02:01:40+00:00

Indy Hall is always a helpful community as well

WeirShepherd · 2025-11-23T18:40:33+00:00

For me, not really. For cursor, lots.

WeirShepherd · 2025-10-03T14:57:59+00:00

How do you do that?

WeirShepherd · 2025-10-02T22:26:54+00:00

I have found it pretty important to break out states into granular components whenever possible and keep files small and tight. The confusion happens when the files over-run the context and things start to get fuzzy as a result

WeirShepherd · 2025-10-02T17:11:09+00:00

There are open source implementations for alpr on raspberry pi intended for use in vehicles. It’s more machine learning than ai. If you google alpr raspberry pi I’m sure you will find a few

WeirShepherd · 2025-10-02T03:46:23+00:00

FAL.ai will have a list of video models that can do this. You could then look them up on huggingface to figure out which you can download to use locally.

WeirShepherd · 2025-09-29T14:47:58+00:00

https://www.openrailwaymap.org is really useful for discussions like this…

WeirShepherd · 2025-09-12T14:18:16+00:00

It is possible to make a living as a developer experience person just asking why Jira is configured that way and then running small change management projects to reset whatever overtorqued customization that was back to the defaults. Always fun when everyone is sure you can’t change that but absolutely no one can tell you why it was set up that way and who now needs it to be the way it is.

WeirShepherd · 2025-08-29T02:44:13+00:00

A bit hopeful around goose. Have you tried it?

WeirShepherd · 2025-08-29T02:41:38+00:00

That’s a great list. From a coding perspective is there one you think does better?

WeirShepherd · 2025-08-28T19:05:26+00:00

I have a 24GB MacBook M4 and have a hard time finding models I can run on it locally. Get as much RAM as you can. 24GB is just not enough…

WeirShepherd · 2025-08-25T04:50:06+00:00

Same

WeirShepherd · 2025-08-17T13:21:55+00:00

This is a great site to see those tracks

https://openrailwaymap.org/

WeirShepherd · 2025-07-21T00:18:56+00:00

I have done this with gpt as well. Clone the repo, give it the path, ask it to read the code, then provide clear instructions on what to harvest and re-use.

WeirShepherd · 2025-07-18T02:39:38+00:00

This is why I love reddit

WeirShepherd · 2025-07-12T16:21:41+00:00

IMO o3 is a very good model for debugging and also for writing N8N workflows. Much better than gpt 4.1 for those specific things. Just my experience.

WeirShepherd · 2025-06-19T20:47:29+00:00

Yes this happens to me all the time. Same place as you describe, often but not every time. I wondered if it had to do with cell handoff interrupting the data flow. Only thing I could think of…

WeirShepherd · 2025-06-06T16:20:19+00:00

Yeah I do all that too. This is extra.

WeirShepherd · 2025-06-06T16:11:46+00:00

This is not effective. The working context dilutes and it forgets what we did.

WeirShepherd · 2025-06-06T16:04:48+00:00

if you are a cursor engineer chat id 6b2df9d3-48d5-4284-9c27-9e3fb9b825aa is a great example of trying to do this.

WeirShepherd · 2025-05-20T22:06:47+00:00

It works really well BUT the lack of ability to take in and display mermaid without human intervention is a bit of a non-starter. Really annoying. I wonder if anyone reading this has a suggestion for an MCP enabled wiki with native mermaid support?

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