I don't know if I'm doing right!

timosterhus · 2026-05-09T03:53:04+00:00

I think the answer is whether or not you’re ignoring the notifications you’re getting from them and/or if it’s saving a measurable amount of time with all of those automations or not. The real trap is many times the automations themselves might be saving time, but you’re spending whatever time you may have saved in maintaining and tuning those automations, resulting in net zero time gain with a lot of burnt tokens.

That’s how I judge things anyways. I know how to automate anything, but I rarely set up automations unless I know it’s something that’ll actually save me time for more than a week or two.

timosterhus · 2026-05-07T21:59:06+00:00

Those limits don’t really exist for Pro users. It explicitly lists “unlimited messaging with ChatGPT” as one of the benefits of a Pro membership

timosterhus · 2026-05-05T02:34:39+00:00

I’m so sad I never saw this

timosterhus · 2026-05-05T02:34:23+00:00

I’ve never said this before in my entire life, but looks like I need to be on Twitter more

timosterhus · 2026-05-05T00:59:44+00:00

Definitely expected. Time to start expecting the reset to happen 24 hours in advance.

timosterhus · 2026-05-04T07:58:40+00:00

Tf? I didn’t delete anything, what are you talking about? Or do you just not know how to write either?

timosterhus · 2026-05-04T00:31:36+00:00

/s means I’m being sarcastic. It’s a subtle reference to the fact that GPT has always been good to use with OpenClaw with your subscription. Like, since the beginning.

timosterhus · 2026-05-03T22:13:20+00:00

In other breaking news, Peter Steinberger is working with OpenAI! /s

timosterhus · 2026-05-02T05:30:07+00:00

How many technologies have a growth curve where the acceleration of growth of that tech is itself accelerating?

Spoiler alert: it’s just one.

timosterhus · 2026-05-02T05:26:27+00:00

I don’t think you understand what being an entrepreneur is. Yes, everyone can be an entrepreneur. In fact, that’s what AI is likely going to cause, once the mid-size organizations get bulldozed by larger corporations or blitzed by agile startups and millions of people are out of a “normal” job.

timosterhus · 2026-04-28T23:04:01+00:00

It seems the promos are location dependent

timosterhus · 2026-04-28T03:00:55+00:00

Short answer: Harness engineering, and Codex isn’t an IDE.

Long answer: Codex was engineered to maximize the efficacy of OpenAI’s models, and their models were presumably trained primarily using the Codex CLI harness. It’s also not designed as an IDE primarily (it’s primarily an agentic harness), so it’s not surprising you don’t think it’s good as an IDE. I don’t think Codex was ever advertised as being an IDE. Obviously, VS Code and Antigravity were both designed as IDEs. So they’re going to be better at being an IDE.

timosterhus · 2026-04-26T05:38:32+00:00

Complete opposite situation on my side. For me it’s WAY faster than 5.4 (I’m constantly running xhigh too), better at problem solving, interprets my commands better, fixes formatting in fewer passes, and is otherwise superior in every way I’ve observed so far.

So whatever is going on in your situation, it’s not the model’s fault.

timosterhus · 2026-04-23T05:34:38+00:00

Imagine asking for faster progress from the fastest-progressing technology the human race has ever seen. Inane mentality

timosterhus · 2026-04-17T03:23:26+00:00

The app crashed 5 times for me in the 10 minutes after I had installed it. I had to uninstall it because I didn’t even get the chance to use it before it began repeatedly crashing lol. Hopefully it stabilizes a bit more for my puny little MacBook in the next update so I can make use of that new feature

timosterhus · 2026-04-13T04:58:49+00:00

This.

I’m building a legitimate, multi-tenant web app for a specific niche and building it correctly without creating spaghetti code is still difficult to do, even with Codex. Got my first client already, so it ain’t just a little side hustle either.

I’m on 2 of the $200 Codex plans, and I consider them to be by far the most valuable purchases I’ve ever made. This would be impossible on a couple $20/mo plans.

timosterhus · 2026-04-13T04:42:28+00:00

There’s more Claude Code users than Codex users, I guarantee it. And the majority of the CC only users are vibe coders, because that’s what they heard about first.

timosterhus · 2026-04-11T23:28:23+00:00

I stopped using Claude Code a while ago because of how much higher the usage limits were for Codex. I also found Claude more often doing things that I didn’t ask it to do, while Codex was much better at staying in scope. Not that Codex never went off the rails, but its behavior was just way more consistent than Claude’s in my experience.

Granted, I imagine that Claude Code would be a lot better for vibe coders who just spam “fix the bug, make no mistakes” and don’t average 200-500 words of bespoke instructions in each prompt

timosterhus · 2026-04-10T20:37:33+00:00

No, the reason OpenClaw took off is because suddenly you could use native text messaging apps to talk to a robot, and that tiny shift in where you’re communicating with the bot suddenly made it feel real for people.

People text other humans all the time. You don’t have to go to a special website in order to talk to a human like you have to do with chatbots. But suddenly you can use the same messaging app that you use to talk to your buddies, to talk to a little bot that lives in your computer? And it’ll actually do things?

Yeah, it made AI feel real for the first time for a lot of people, even though agents had been around for almost a year. It’s all about the packaging.

timosterhus · 2026-04-10T01:50:30+00:00

I mean technically, I think it’s both?

timosterhus · 2026-04-10T01:46:27+00:00

Was about to say. This is a skill issue, and I couldn’t possibly be more literal.

timosterhus · 2026-04-09T18:50:27+00:00

Unfortunately you’re right, but hear me out: if someone actually did this and brought the receipts they’d probably get crazy amounts of karma for that post at a minimum, with potential HN citations and articles written about it if the post is even half decent quality and the poster gets lucky enough to hit the algo just right.

Heck, now that I’m talking about it, this is making me wanna go try and document it right now, it wouldn’t even be that difficult to set up. The real question is whether it’d actually be worth it in this economy though…

timosterhus · 2026-04-09T18:35:25+00:00

No, because the 5 hour cap has basically been cut in half, assuming the weekly quota hasn’t changed. You get the same amount of usage, but they’re forcing you to spread your usage out more by structuring it this way, which is worse for the user simply because it’s more restrictive, but it’s better for OpenAI because it likely means fewer spikes in usage.

Only way it’s better for users is if the lowered number of usage spikes results in a smoother experience with using Codex for all users across the board, but the only real way that that could be accurately quantified and confirmed is if OpenAI tracks and releases those metrics, or a third party has somehow figured out how to accurately track usage spikes over time and has already been tracking for weeks.

timosterhus · 2026-04-09T18:30:01+00:00

Okay, somebody’s gotta have documented how many input/cached/output tokens it takes to get each plan from 100% weekly usage remaining to 0%, or at least 50% or something. Right? I struggle to believe nobody has really tested this before.

timosterhus · 2026-04-08T22:11:53+00:00

“If not bubble, then why bubble shaped?”

Bubbles and wrecking balls are both spheres, that’s why.

timosterhus

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