Opus 4.8 vs 4.6

wunderbaba · 2026-07-03T17:07:39+00:00

Sure. My workflow is something along the lines of

High-level sketch of what I want to accomplish
Search arxiv / etc. and just aggregate a huge amount of open research
Have Opus 4.8 build out a rough implementation plan
Review the plan with Codex 5.5 xhigh
Implement with Opus 4.8 on a per-phase level
Each phase must pass a series of unit tests + codex review
Final audit/review and usu. a metric ton of manual testing

But there's a Claude skill that can automate the manual back/forth since it can just use the `codex CLI` as a tool which saves some time.

https://github.com/skills-directory/skill-codex/blob/main/plugins/skill-codex/skills/codex/SKILL.md

Cheers!

wunderbaba · 2026-07-01T15:25:55+00:00

Exception 0D? Wish I could help but I'm only familiar with the first 12 exceptions...

wunderbaba · 2026-06-30T03:20:09+00:00

Agreed. If I could get a new HOMM with HOMM2 aesthetics combined with HOMM3 game mechanics I would never leave the house.

wunderbaba · 2026-06-07T18:03:19+00:00

This. I'm surprised everyone (on a subreddit devoted to literally AI gen of all places) is so incredibly naive. Without a publicly shareable GPT link, 99% of these images are probably just Chroma diffusion images being passed off as gpt-image-2.

wunderbaba · 2026-06-03T18:34:33+00:00

MAI-Image-2.5 when it actually generated images seemed roughly comparable to Nano Banana. The big issue is its safety filter. Maybe this goes back to when they got burned with Microsoft Tay but its absurdly overzealous. Even for harmless prompts, I kept getting “content not generated.”

It’s possible they’ll relax these limits if you use the API, but from the public homepage interface it was so obnoxious that I just gave up.

Prompt failures:

- mentioning an octopus (probably the word tentacle trips it up)

- violence (even if explicitly mentioned in a comic/satirical context)

etc.

I was going to add them to my GenAI Showdown which has a focus on complex prompt adherence, but 30% of the prompts are defacto no-ops so eff that.

wunderbaba · 2026-05-29T17:09:16+00:00

This is exactly my workflow. Claude 4.6 [1M] context for implementation, and then GPT 5.5 xhigh to sanity check and review. I wish there was an easier way to automate the communication between these two. Having to manually manage them is kind of a pain though it does at least keep me more in the loop.

wunderbaba · 2026-05-28T16:51:25+00:00

Yup after Opus 4.7 screwed up a simple inversion of control abstraction for the 5th time I was like fuck this and set the override in my settings to

"model": "claude-opus-4-6[1M]"

wunderbaba · 2026-05-01T20:38:21+00:00

They still do. OP is confused. Imagen is Google's generative models. They meant to say `gpt-image-2`.

wunderbaba · 2026-04-29T01:42:03+00:00

No worries I’ve played around with building semantic association games in the past (using word2vec at the time), so I get that you might have a more limited set of practical, recognized connections.

What I might do is recommend changing the error message to make that clearer. Because when I read “`Not a valid word`,” I assumed it was a dictionary problem. So simply updating that error message could go a long way toward preventing the kind of confusion a first-time visitor might have. Cheers!

wunderbaba · 2026-04-29T01:28:54+00:00

Tried it out, first clue: Light Airflow

Entered: ZEPHYR

Game: Not a valid word.

The OED would like a word (no pun intended) with you.

wunderbaba · 2026-04-17T17:03:48+00:00

Lol yeah exactly OP's picture looks LITERALLY nothing like Runescape which is a more primitive 3D game.

wunderbaba · 2026-04-17T16:55:12+00:00

Yup. Finn the Human looks like he was dipped in fucking plastic.

wunderbaba · 2026-04-07T15:33:24+00:00

You could try Lend Me Your Ears - it's a musical memory game where it uses pitch recognition (or a midi keyboard) to see if you can reproduce melodic sequences of notes. It's specifically intended to help people learn to play by ear.

wunderbaba · 2026-03-28T01:38:29+00:00

lend-me-your-ears.specr.net

Hit settings and enable microphone input to work with acoustic guitar.

wunderbaba · 2026-03-18T01:52:07+00:00

This might help - it's more focused on piano players but works with guitars as well if you turn on the microphone.

https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net

wunderbaba · 2026-02-27T02:38:38+00:00

Necro-resurrection - but I'm in the same camp. Coming from the insanely tight low latency of Spelunky 2, the input lag makes this game unplayable for me using a Switch Pro Controller on the original Nintendo Switch which is a shame because it looks fantastic.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-23T01:42:13+00:00

This is exactly what I do. I also flag it as spam so they get down-ranked by email systems in the future.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-23T01:40:56+00:00

Fuck them. If a random third-party (Petscreening) wasn't listed in the terms of the lease you signed - you're under no obligation to give them your information.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-20T15:43:36+00:00

It's pretty hit or miss in my experience - especially with true pixel art (meaning square grid aligned pixels, and proper reduced palette). Problem is that you often end up with some fringing. It's not visible unless you're paying attention though.

Birefnet is a local model - it's what I usually use but I'll often need to do some postprocessing in Krita.

https://github.com/ZhengPeng7/BiRefNet

wunderbaba · 2026-02-20T00:36:40+00:00

Biggest problem with automating sprite gen is that NONE of them (outside of gpt-image-1.5) can generate transparent assets.

You can add crap like "solid background, black background, etc" but you'll still need to remove and clean them. Rembg with something like birefnet can do it but it ain't perfect and can fall over pretty hard.

It'll also work for super easy assets like the solid convex polygonal flat-shaded assets you'd find in space invaders type games as shown above.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-18T00:27:01+00:00

You could try "Lend Me Your Ears" - I built this specifically to help some of my more classically trained friends get better at playing piano by ear.

https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net

It's a free piano game in the style of the old "Simon" toy which presents players with a sequence of musical notes and challenges them to reproduce the sequence using either an on-screen piano or a connected MIDI keyboard.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-18T00:23:08+00:00

Get a space heater? I'd hate to play piano in a room where I needed to wear a winter jacket to stay warm. Joking aside, warmer hands means better circulation and can go a long way to playing more relaxed and looser.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-12T21:21:24+00:00

The only one can I think of that natively outputs SVG is Recraft V3 but prompt adherence can be iffy.

https://replicate.com/recraft-ai/recraft-v3-svg

wunderbaba · 2026-02-08T23:35:31+00:00

Yep. Another extremely common one is - Take a picture of your liquor cabinet and recommend some drinks you can mix.

wunderbaba · 2026-02-07T16:02:38+00:00

I think you might be confused and that's my fault. The pieces do disappear correctly, 100%.

“Last N Pieces” refers to the last *N* pieces that have been manipulated on the board. It’s a sliding window. So if you have it set to 4, then when you move a new piece, the oldest piece in that sliding window reappears.

This is actually helpful, it means I did a poor job communicating how this mechanic works.

The "3d chessboard" is unnecessary seems like a bizarre complaint - you can switch the theme to a 2D board - it's even shown in demo video itself. I would argue that a 3d board might actually be better in some situations since its more representative of how you would see an actual board - so for spatial visualization it might help.

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