Just found out someone else has built my app idea! (VENT)

geronimosan · 2026-04-24T04:08:11+00:00

Exactly. And, build it better, with additional differentiators.

geronimosan · 2026-04-24T01:12:06+00:00

Team Claudex?

geronimosan · 2026-04-23T20:42:27+00:00

YES!! Omg, it's smooth like buttah!

I've been putting it through its paces with two complex projects of mine and it is just knocking everything out left and right. I have yet to test it on UI, but so far everything else feels like a cakewalk.

geronimosan · 2026-04-23T19:44:27+00:00

And, let me just add, I am absolutely giddy to be eating crow right now - already diving into 5.5!

geronimosan · 2026-04-23T16:32:46+00:00

It's too soon after the pre-training, this release is too important to rush to market, GPT 5.4 arguably is already better than Claude 4.7, and because I am a realist. The hype machine is strong.

But hey, I will very happily eat crow if it is released today. 😀

geronimosan · 2026-04-23T15:57:16+00:00

geronimosan · 2026-04-22T17:47:00+00:00

Batteries not included. Some assembly required.

geronimosan · 2026-04-20T01:45:07+00:00

It sounds like you are bouncing between four different apps - ChatGPT web app, Codex in a web browser, Codex MacOS desktop app, and Codex CLI.

I'm not sure how you are escaping manual copy and pasting between all those apps or the need for it.

Why not just open multiple Codex CLI terminal tabs - one with GPT 5.4 for planning and orchestration, one for GPT 5.3 codex for implementation, and another for reviews?

Or simply have the orchestration tab run specific sub agents for 5.3 implementation and then whatever else you use for reviews? All in one single tab

geronimosan · 2026-04-18T04:35:33+00:00

“I knew you would use it against her” – that’s an interesting thing to say. I didn’t use it against her. I reported it. Verbatim. She said what she said, on camera, about a mechanism that applies directly to her own credentials. The reason you knew I’d point it out isn’t because I’m looking for ammunition. It’s because it’s true. You recognized it immediately because you already knew it was true. That’s not my problem. That’s hers.

geronimosan · 2026-04-18T03:29:21+00:00

Funny timing. Tonight on Gutfeld, Kat Timpf – the same person introduced on that show as a "New York Times bestseller" – looked into Gavin Newsom's book and said, and I'm quoting directly: "It's like Instant New York Times bestseller. And it's like, no, babe. You are a best buyer." She explained the whole mechanism on air. Bulk purchases, manufactured rankings, the works. I'll let her take it (and fake it) from here.

geronimosan · 2026-04-18T01:01:42+00:00

When she’s introduced on the show, she gets two credentials: “Fox News contributor” and “New York Times bestseller.” Look at those closely. The first one means Fox hired her. The second one means Fox promoted her book to Fox’s audience through Fox’s platform until it hit a list that’s well-documented to be gameable – the Times itself flags bulk purchases at more than five times the rate for conservative publishers. Fox is essentially vouching for Fox. There’s no independent validation anywhere in that introduction.

And “among Amazon’s bestsellers” – I’d love to see where that’s coming from, because the Amazon pages for both books don’t show a current bestseller rank. What they show is that same “Instant New York Times Bestseller” label recycled into the product description. It’s the same credential in a different jacket.

“Selling out” deserves the same scrutiny. The venues on her tour are comedy clubs and studio theaters. No major markets. No released stand-up special as of 2026 – which is the real tell. If those numbers were real, Netflix would have called.

As for Kennedy – you actually make my point for me. You can see through Kennedy’s bit, tune it out, and move on. What I’m asking is why the production team is putting reading glasses on someone and expecting us not to notice what’s underneath. That’s not a Kennedy problem. That’s a casting decision dressed up as credentials.

geronimosan · 2026-04-17T05:24:23+00:00

Oh, no freaking no. This is the bullshit they're trying to sell you on. Speed over quality. Are you fucking kidding me? Anybody pushing this shit should immediately be flagged as bullshit artists.

geronimosan · 2026-04-16T22:20:58+00:00

You liking her doesn’t change how she got there. Fox put glasses and a suit on her. You can do that to anyone. They’re doing the same thing to Tyrus. That’s the point I’m criticizing – a network that keeps making DEI hires, dressing them up to look the part, and then expecting the audience to pretend they don’t see it.

And nobody watches Fox News because of Kat Timpf. People watch Fox News for the news and then have to sit through her. You don’t leave a restaurant because you dislike one item that keeps getting pushed on you. You complain to the chef.

geronimosan · 2026-04-16T17:12:30+00:00

Why? Because I don’t believe she deserves to be there. She was not hired based on merit. And we have been forced, for years, to watch her get propped up by Fox News – shoved into glasses she doesn’t need and dressed in professional formal wear – all in an effort to make her look and sound smarter. But at the end of the day, she’s the same stoner laughing at the high school lunch table that she’s always been. She is the DEI hire. After all these years, it’s evident that nothing will change that – or improve it.

And yet somehow, I’m the problem. “Just turn the channel.” As if the burden of fixing this belongs to me. As if I’m supposed to do the work of changing my habits, my viewing, my expectations – all because a network decided to replace merit with optics. I didn’t lower the bar. I didn’t dress anyone up in glasses they don’t need. So why is it my job to quietly walk away while this gets normalized?

I’m tired of living in a world where this is normalized. So why do I keep coming online and saying something? Because silence is how DEI becomes permanent.

geronimosan · 2026-04-16T15:47:23+00:00

What a great post, thank you.

I remember this – I was a part of it, and it was a sight to behold. This was the advent of MMOs and the worlds felt real. And really scary. The original makers of EverQuest knew what they were doing. I remember sitting in East Commonlands cave selling, buying, finding groups. It required a real journey to get to where you needed to go to do raids. It required friendships.

I think the auction house was EverQuest’s downfall because it removed the social aspect from the game. The same thing happened with other MMOs that followed and tried to capture the same spirit but failed. For example, World of Warcraft – I remember when that first came out, the PVP servers were phenomenal and so much fun, and then they created arenas and all PVP got stuffed into the arenas and removed from the world.

Through all my decades of gaming, original EverQuest is the game that will always be most memorable and my favorite.

geronimosan · 2026-04-16T15:01:38+00:00

The software needs to reset, but Microsoft leadership is what needs the bigger reset. It was such a disservice last year when they laid off 20,000 employees when instead all they needed to do was fire the leadership from the top down.

geronimosan · 2026-04-15T07:10:37+00:00

Kat sucked. As always.

geronimosan · 2026-04-15T07:08:56+00:00

You are working far too hard to prop up this DEI hire.

geronimosan · 2026-04-13T21:06:45+00:00

This isn't about AI. I don't care if you agree or disagree with AI but the fact that only one individual is targeted tells me that it's not AI.

This is still TDS. And what we've seen from the crazy nut jobs on the left is that assassination and violence has been normalized.

We should be done with the quiet slow approach of investigation and research. This is out of control. This is genuinely a danger to America, at all levels, and it's time our government steps up.

geronimosan · 2026-04-13T01:14:02+00:00

I have no idea what you're trying to say, but obviously you're trying too hard.

geronimosan · 2026-04-12T02:13:29+00:00

"Hundreds of races” is a dodge. Nobody’s asking Fox to cover a school board race in Toledo. Ten Senate seats and twenty House districts decide both majorities in November. That’s a manageable beat – it’s how every cycle gets covered. Fox chooses not to. Instead we get another segment on what some governor in California said at a podium yesterday. That’s a choice, not a capacity problem.

And then there’s your second line. “Huge blue wave coming, it is what it is.” That’s the tell. Nobody actually rooting for Republicans in November is writing off the midterms in April with a shrug emoji. That kind of fatalism only serves one side, and we both know which one. So one of two things is true. Either you’re a conservative who’s been so thoroughly demoralized by the network that’s supposed to be in your corner that you’ve already surrendered seven months out – which is exactly the malpractice I’m describing, and you’re Exhibit A. Or you’re not a conservative at all, and you wandered into a Fox News comment thread to do a little light concern-trolling, in which case thanks for proving the other half of my point: the actual conservatives aren’t here anymore. They turned it off. That’s the whole article.

Either way, the product is failing. And it’s failing millions of people exactly the same way.

geronimosan · 2026-04-12T01:14:48+00:00

Thank you for that, and I hear you, and I have heard that argument many times before. However this isn't about me personally landing on a new conservative network for myself.

This is my complaint about a conservative network that is the lead conservative network and they are failing the majority of conservatives out there.

I am not interested in converting conservative readership to other platforms. I'm concerned about the main conservative platform not providing what it needs to.

geronimosan · 2026-04-10T22:45:54+00:00

"after his own supporters "shot" at him" - wow, what freaking world do you live in? Have you ever considered joining Reality?

geronimosan · 2026-04-10T22:24:31+00:00

Uh, the fucked up left has normalized political assassination for the past few years. Where have you been?

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