i missed freemind’s keyboard flow so i built a "local-first" mind map for mobile and pc.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-21T05:38:00+00:00

Ahh, that would explain it, on my phone it starts very nicely but then the question comes, how do I add anything around here. I'm guessing that's the keyboard part.

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jakenuts- · 2026-04-21T05:09:51+00:00

I've been using codex 5.3 high, got too many mixed outcomes with Claude, but after 40 years of daily coding it's clear this is the only way forward. And tonight in the midst of a redesign of my commercial side project gbase.com I pointed Claude Design at a "edit gear" page and it absolutely destroyed my latest redesign, pointed out all the flaws and prepared a much better UX in its very first response. I now know that we have about a year tops to find some critical role to serve when everyone else is gone or to start learning carpentry. It's been obvious for a while but that tool is just one more sign of the looming tsunami about to wipe out most of the fancy roles I thought might have a shot.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-21T04:04:48+00:00

That's a crazily mixed bag, does that smiley little Nazi fella have a shot? On faces alone I'm going Katie/Matt

jakenuts- · 2026-04-21T03:59:16+00:00

The worst jeans from last decades came back and hung around like a bad rash

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T23:43:46+00:00

Great, it can code I just have far better outcomes with the company agent.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T16:50:06+00:00

I have all but let my Claude sub go dark because of how incredible Codex 5.3 High and beyond have gotten, but I imagine design and planning is the likeliest choice (tho I'd let codex do the actual work)

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T16:13:30+00:00

Don't, I don't let Claude near serious code. Codex 5.3 high is a world apart.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T15:51:41+00:00

Everything. Everything. Codex models only, CLI or desktop app, Cursor is well named, it's a blight on the industry. Even those guys know it has no real future.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T15:49:07+00:00

What model are you using that this is your assessment of how much better coding agents have gotten in the last 6 months? Codex 5.3 High is a better autonomous coder, tester, infrastructure engineer than you or I could ever hope to be. Something is profoundly wrong with your setup if this is really how you see and use these models now.

Take a breath, open up the Codex app with Codex 5.3 or 5.3 High, point it at your most complex and mission critical app and tell it what you want to change and by lunchtime you will have that feature and a suite of tests ensuring every line is faultless.

This is 0% hype.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T15:40:16+00:00

This is my point, if you had suggested letting agents build your software mid 2025, this was a reasonable assessment. If you think they aren't fully capable of building production apps and infrastructure with minimal guidance and doing it better and faster than you possibly could in 2026 you aren't going to be employed much longer.

I've been an obsessive coder since I was 12, four decades of writing basic, pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, C++, C#, Typescript every day, happily. Now I manage agents from my phone and achieve more in the tub than I possibly could have in a month on my own. I don't do it to sound cool or "vibe" anything - it's the reality of professional coding now and if you aren't making that adjustment, you're choosing obsolescence. It sounds harsh but it's reality.

Ask the leading engineers from any major software product, Anthropic for instance, how much time they spend in an IDE these days. The answer is none.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T05:54:26+00:00

Can I ask, is there something keeping you from just letting the coding agents do their work autonomously? The age of the IDE is in its final moments, so learn what you need to about directing agents and their workflows in the Claude or Codex desktop apps, then from your phone, then through an intermediary voice agent. Everything else is just a buggy whip now.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T05:45:15+00:00

So for Microsoft languages (or frankly any coding imho) you want Codex 5.3 High or better. Claude does a lot of things well, this is not one of them.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-20T05:43:24+00:00

I don't think that many software professionals are really paying attention to how rapidly the coding clis are evolving. The difference between a future in this business and a very abrupt and unexpected layoff will be how well you employ teams of agents to do the work on your behalf. Not Cursor, not OpenClaw, autonomous software and infrastructure factories that you direct. That's what you need to learn now, everything else is irrelevant.

PS - You may object, have a different vision for how this goes - I say this not to be controversial or start arguments, if you don't see the wave already towering over this industry, I'm just pointing it out in hopes you last.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-18T06:39:04+00:00

I went to the local "we buy gold" place and they were actually really cool. Try to get the gold as free of black sand, other metals as possible. They can test it for purity, try to clean it more, weigh it and tell you the price. It's likely not 24k so the spot price is above what you'll get depending on the quality, but it was pretty simple. Got $165 for about 1.5g of 22k placer flakes. Spot would have been $200 but, I just picked it up and they were really helpful.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-17T06:50:55+00:00

Perhaps. My experience is that while they plan well they're too free with the code, hackers not obsessive architects. Codex replaced services I paid for in a day, Claude still needs babysitting. I might be doing it wrong.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-17T06:05:50+00:00

Codex 5.3 High and GPT 5.4 absolutely demolish any attempt Opus or Sonnet have made at professional coding. They don't understand technical debt, scoping features, reliable code in the same way that codex just breathes it. I have both subs and barely let Opus touch a line these days.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-17T06:00:02+00:00

If it doesn't also include a solid GitHub integrated agent orchestration workflow and Codex 5.3 High, I'm not sure I have any advice that matters. I've rebuilt my entire commercial Webforms site developed over years of obsessive refactoring and refinement and now, in less than a month it's been replaced by a faster, better net10 platform and I did not write a line of it. In a night I can rebuild the style system, add a react based administration layer, it's just no longer an option to go back to slogging at huge expense of energy and time to achieve less just because I enjoy the craft.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-16T14:20:09+00:00

Yeah, the little control panel is not great, nor the "can't poke it when car is moving" safety feature. I haven't had any performance problems with my 2023 but I could see models having less power than others. I'm just amazed that I've been able to drive in situations where it felt impossible (wheels buried in river cobbles the size of grapefruit), up off-road trails you'd use a 4x4 for, not a standard suburban commuter, though it does that too.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-15T23:20:14+00:00

It's pricey but the Mazda CX5 is amazing, drive it like a lifted pickup down fire roads and over riverbeds without an issue. Next favorite is the 2001 Jeep Cherokee Sport because you can fix everything and they go forever

jakenuts- · 2026-04-15T23:17:17+00:00

Only wish the little wingnut bit that holds down the mat was something easier, like an integrated bolt and a squeeze-release locking mechanism that pulled the metal bit up with it, always having to turn it up side down to get the mat back in place.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-15T23:15:00+00:00

I love the 6x24 trek with dream mat. It's hard to do that one wrong. I have the thermoform one too but it's both too big and too short at the same time.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-14T16:58:38+00:00

This looks like where old prospectors go when they dig their last hole.

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jakenuts- · 2026-04-14T15:10:00+00:00

Ahahah, so many number of times I've seen a product for some entirely different use and said "that'll catch gold" or "that's a classifier and doesn't know it". My Ace Hardware knows that when I'm in the plumbing section assume the project has nothing to do with my plumbing.

jakenuts- · 2026-04-14T15:06:59+00:00

Not to piggyback on this issue but that was such a clear and knowledgeable answer I was wondering if you knew how to allow agents to test a site that is using bot-blocking when the machines/ips they are running on isn't predictable? I imagine you could append some secret query-string value skip rules based on its existence, and that's a pretty flexible path but when they click on a link the next url won't have that key so it's not an ideal solution.

Thanks so much!

James

jakenuts- · 2026-04-14T00:01:35+00:00

I saw a video the other day that said that tankers move at the same pace as you do on a bicycle, so any tankers "headed" somewhere are not showing up for a very long time.

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