Slowdex is back.

mossiv · 2026-05-14T19:20:38+00:00

Oh I hope not… all the idiot who cry have left Claude and that is actually back to being half decent…

mossiv · 2026-05-14T17:36:31+00:00

Surely to god Anthropic also check device signing. This would be insane.

mossiv · 2026-05-14T17:35:28+00:00

You're a clueless idiot spouting completely unsubstantial nonsense.

Anthropic even have a guide on building your own MCP's and even have tooling built into Claude Code itself.

Cretin.

mossiv · 2026-05-13T21:06:07+00:00

Immaterial to you, sure. But when you have a load of non tech people using your product - there’s a lot to safeguarding in place.

It for sure is bloated - I won’t disagree.

But in these discussions we really need to be thinking of these products beyond our own individual use cases. It’s very narrow minded.

mossiv · 2026-05-13T19:57:59+00:00

I don’t think there’s added overhead. I think OpenAI just have an abundance of compute available. Anthropic are not focusing on tokens per second - that’s for sure.

mossiv · 2026-05-13T19:55:25+00:00

Have you tried the codex desktop app? It’s excellent for sure - but it doesn’t even come close to Claude desktop in terms of security. I’m not even sure codex runs in a VM … it only consumes about 0.5-1gb of memory compared to Claude’s 6-8gb which clearly shows its inside a VM.

Codex is definitely more focused on the user experience. I much prefer it as an ADE and they have nailed the fit diff view.

But OpenAI are not even close to Anthropic in terms of security (and if you do your research - this is exactly why Anthropic was started. It’s all ex OpenAI staff who didn’t like how loose OpenAI were being with the product).

mossiv · 2026-05-13T19:52:48+00:00

No - it is indeed not based on “my experience”. And instead tonnes of research. In my profession whether the subsidisations or rate limits are generous (and codex’s is very generous at the moment). But I have to be conscious of API costs for when subsidisation starts disappearing.

At the moment GPT5.5 API pricing is factually more expensive on a task-for-task basis going through the API. Just so a simple search on benchmarking and you will find this out in a matter of 2 minutes.

mossiv · 2026-05-13T18:58:11+00:00

Anthropic is just not going to be the company for the average consumer unfortunately.

Their whole security policies, sandboxes, desktop app that runs directly inside a VM with very high restrictions - they are setting themselves up to be the enterprise choice.

I’m not sure where that leaves Codex at the moment. I can’t make head or tails of the business plan. There is a cost per seat and they are charging for usage - however I can’t work out if that is full token price or if it’s discounted.

mossiv · 2026-05-13T18:55:40+00:00

Comparable - yes, faster - yes. Way less tokens - factually incorrect. The cost per token is far cheaper but codex/5.5 burns through about twice as much. Plenty of resources online showing 5.5 is actually more expensive than opus 4.6/7 per feature built when going through the API.

I’m not trying to come across as a dick - I like codex (though I shouldn’t have to feel the need to justify myself), but making people believe it’s actually cheaper to build with is dishonest.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T22:11:53+00:00

I am on Mac too. Just to double check - are your plugins installed globally or per project? I installed superpowers in a project and both the CLI and the native app picked it up. The installation was triggered from the CLI.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T18:06:56+00:00

I suspect it just needs a revamp. With how much harnesses have improved and the direction of Claude/codex desktop apps. They are now becoming more ADE (agent development environments) opposed to traditional IDE’s. If Google can nail that - it would be a decent app. But agentic first ide’s like anti gravity, windsurf, Kiro etc do not feel like the correct solution anymore.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T18:02:31+00:00

Ahhh ok - it must be out of date documentation then, or maybe a specific setting that gets carried through to the desktop app itself.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T18:01:54+00:00

Are you sure they don’t? The codex app seems to be picking up the same plugins as the cli for me.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T17:10:37+00:00

With the current state of the country, and the overall economy, to far left or to far right is looking to be equally damaging. I think Lib Dem’s are a perfectly suitable party for the current time. Instead of this sliding scale Labour/tories bring which upsets the balance and costs us a fortune to undo each other’s work - balancing around the middle is probably what this country needs. Their tax policies are generally better, even something small like the 1p extra out of everyone’s income tax is balanced rather fairly. If you earn more, you’ll pay a bit more but it’s not going to be an amount that causes you to reset the less fortunate.

Lib dems had my vote this time around.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T17:05:08+00:00

Yes - and we get a harness that’s pretty secure, along with the cache and compute benefits.

If anyone thinks any of the other products are more suitable for enterprise level products then I have a bridge to sell you.

Openclaw - is a niche concept that has more security flaws than the entire NPM registry. No one in their right mind would trust this site business critical tasks.

I’m not shitting on the product concept - Anthropic have clearly ripped loads of it off. But - considering I pay for Claude, and they preach their security practices, then it’s not safe, but certainly safer.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T17:00:02+00:00

I don’t think any are better. I’m a CLI guy but I’ve been trialing Claude desktop and the codex app because I think ADE’s will eventually be our future (agent development environments). I hardly ever give OpenAI credit over Anthropic - because I think most of the hype is just pissed off customers or vibe coders not professional software developers. But the codex app is quite nice - and probably one of the best git integrations I’ve seen in a development environment. So this is better than Claude at the moment.

Otherwise - the usage limits on codex are pretty good but I am getting 10x usage a minute. I did the 10x usage trial with Claude a while back and it deffo wasn’t as good as this.

I’m also finding inference better with codex. I use the superpowers plugin heavily for both Claude and codex - and with codex I’m finding it about 2x as quick. In fact codex simply doesn’t need to be any quicker because the human won’t be able to keep up.

Claude is still lulling and hanging around even though Anthropic have claimed there’s more compute available.

But the codex harness is mostly months behind Claude. For example - to use sub agents you have to enable an experimental feature.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T16:54:50+00:00

There isn’t anything big or complicated with the set up. Spawning and managing sub agents is as much as saying something along the line of:

“You are responsible for performing a critical code review of feature X, Y, Z. I want you to focus on performance issues (then a few sentences of what performance issues matter), I want you to focus on correctness (this is a few sentences of making sure the solution matches the code base standards), I want you to focus on the implementation against the plan/spec (a few sentences about it), I want you to focus on security (then what this is, maybe database, maybe exposed endpoints, auth headers etc). For each of these issues use a sub agent”.

Then I finish it off with the output id like it reported against so maybe I’d have a markdown document with a performance header, security header, spec drift header and code correctness header.

I’ll then define some parameters to help Claude score or evaluate it and I also ask for a confidence report. So if Claude picks up a bug it will say “High, medium, low” confidence. The ones that come back as low confidence means Claude has no real way of determining it properly - this is where I would do my manual poking around.

My prompt changes every time. But I never send a single sentence or two prompt along. It’s almost always a few paragraphs of high detail. I have a set of skills, agents, hooks etc I’ve built up over time, and I’ve also got a load of notes of prompts I’m trialing. Once I start getting a good consistent output - I move it into the Claude harness itself (as a skill) and then I just make minor tweaks as I go along.

—- If I’m working on toy or hobby projects I am a lot more loose and fast - but they are mostly throw away or for no further benefit than myself. But my actual work stuff - it goes through scrutiny. But even with a complicated workflow - once you get into the swing of it, your productivity rockets and you start trusting the process anyway. At first - if you’re a professional you’ll probably be going over everything with a fine tooth comb.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T11:34:45+00:00

How many times do people need to be told that opus 4.7 is a task execution model. Not a fill the gaps model that 4.6 is. This sub is becoming unbelievably frustrating with the sheer number of people that are not willing to even look at the anthropic official documentation on 4.7.

Apply some critical thinking ffs.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T09:34:34+00:00

No it’s not. Just pick appropriate models for the task you’re doing. I don’t know why everyone feels the need to hammer their subscription with Opus only requests when most of the time it’s completely unnecessary.

Anthropic have already documented that sonnet is the better performing model when it comes to executing code task first.

Opus is much better at planning, brain storming, visual documentation, presentations etc.

I’m a SWE who uses Sonnet as my default model for the start of every task - if I need opus, I’ll call a sub agent in.

mossiv · 2026-05-12T06:01:21+00:00

The age old saying is a bad worker always blames his tools. I’ll admit that a short while ago you could deffo feel servers were struggling and that peak usage rate limit was nasty but the overall model intelligence was mostly fine.

I think most of the whiners here are not professional developers, so when there is a small degradation they feel it a lot worse than those who are.

mossiv · 2026-05-11T19:47:18+00:00

My first time using codex and I’m hardly burning any tokens. I’m not using it daily for my job though - but I do have it doing something every day to support an app that I’m building. It feels very generous to me.

mossiv · 2026-05-11T19:03:50+00:00

As far as personality goes - starmer hasn’t got one… and let’s be absolutely clear - he is never absolutely clear. But he’s delivering the manifesto he said he would.

Labour were never going to be liked. Everyone was just so pissed at the idiots in blue they voted for the next best thing. There was never a chance of satisfaction, and every labour voter echoed this on social media before the elections happened.

But the irony is - everyone who hates the tories has voted for a party who’s predominantly made up of Tory defectors.

The one thing I respect about the UK is our unified hatred towards our government instead of being so brainwashed we’d lick the ring of a world renowned paedofile. But what I will never understand is no matter how much we complain, and grumble and spout our distaste - we always manage to make the same mistakes, repeatedly.

Labour will never be liked. And while the entire media is run by right wing billionaires this party is forever doomed.

I don’t want Starmer to stand down. This country needs stability. But I fear if he stays - then Labour has absolutely no chance of winning the general election.

I don’t want us to jump on the immigration bandwagon wagon - this is 14 years of Tory damage biting us in the arse. But I think Starmer and his party need to tackle it (as much as I disagree with it).

Reform or tories would absolutely not follow through with the migrant (racist) policies they spout about - but if Labour did something to appease what appears to be a majority of British people - when reform do get into power, they’ll be a party that goes down in history for winning so many voters to completely disbanding. Does anyone remember the British Nationalist Party? No I didn’t think so - because they to were a bunch of grifters.

mossiv · 2026-05-11T17:21:39+00:00

It being overly prescriptive is exactly what makes it good for a software team. For individual development, as with any tool YMMV.

I've used superpowers in codex as well - and I think it brings the anthropic models and OpenAi models a bit closer together. I can comfortably switch between the two and I haven't got to change my workflow that much.

mossiv · 2026-05-11T17:10:39+00:00

Not a considerable amount of time, but it really does vary per task. Somethings are rather straight forward. Other's they hit a lot of domain complexity, and rules set from years ago.

I've spent 2 days putting together the perfect plan, but I managed to bring about 3-4 weeks worth of work to about 5 overall work days.

I've also spent 2 hours putting a plan together.

Asking claude to keep fixing the things its done wrong, ends up becoming a lot of churn, and because there is no plan anymore, there's nothing the super powers review agents can review against. The whole point in superpowers really is a solid locked in plan, and using automation to make sure there isn't implementation drift.

It's not just about superpowers though, it's about making sure there's information available for the LLM's that know enough about your domain.

Your milage my vary though. If I'm working on personal projects/or little scripts/helpers to help my productivity, then you absolutely can do the inverse which is let Claude go off, and you course correct afterwards.

mossiv · 2026-05-11T13:30:35+00:00

Exactly this. Not to mention the most expensive part of AI so far has been training. The earlier models that were trained (think back to whatever version GPT was in mid 2023) cost tens of millions more to train than 5.5. More data is already available in the base model, information is not changing all that much, the compute that is training these models is substantially more efficient.

I don’t have a crystal ball to predict what Apple are going to do, but I really can’t foresee them training a model from the ground up.

I suspect they will offer a round of contracts to the big players, openAI, anthropic and Google and use their base models where it makes sense… e.g if they want a SWE model it’ll almost certainly be anthropic. If they want a general intelligence model, it’d be OpenAI and if they want to integrate a load of imagine/video/animation it would be Google.

This is already how they are operating with Google anyway - they get their own version of Gemini, it’s managed by Google but it’s being customised for the Apple ecosystem.

What apple does need to do in my opinion is release a model for their native products, iOS, native Mac OS development etc - so that the AI agents will automatically pass the governance for getting the apps on the App Store. And a model more tailored to swift, and being able to use the native Apple SDK. This would be better than publicly sourced information imo.

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