Questioning the status quo.
Trying the Codex app today and really not impressed… Still not possible to edit a message or branch off a thread even though they implemented these in the CLI, and overall 5.2 Codex as a model is so slow (even in medium) and has the shittiest instincts and coding patterns…
In general, apps that integrate "advent calendars" aren't great, but Revolut takes the 💩 crown this year: except for the first day, all their "gifts" require you to buy stuff to receive. Happy holidays from the Product Growth Manager there I guess…
Gotta love it when an app released today by Google (Antigravity) doesn't respect the Tahoe icon mask…… Always the same attention to detail 🙃
Hey, did you ask for your screens to casually show you fake family pictures featuring stuff you could buy? Because it's coming!
https://www.theverge.com/news/798174/directv-glance-ai-shoppable-screensavers
Meta and its executives have no idea what they're doing with the metaverse play. It's so interesting because they seem to be unable to replicate anything that has worked or is working in the likes of Second Life, Fortnite, Roblox…
https://www.theverge.com/column/797624/meta-metaverse-horizon-worlds-mobile-vr-social
A story in two headlines:
Sept 30. "Amazon finally did the damn hardware right" https://www.theverge.com/tech/788051/hands-on-amazon-alexa-echo-show-11-echo-dot-max-echo-studio
Oct 9. "Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show" https://www.theverge.com/report/797672/amazon-echo-show-ads-alexa-plus
Fin.
Super cool video on the next major evolution of the most used audio software ever
Or "where is Trump's latest enemy"
Crazy new dystopian feature you need to disable if you own Ring cams (or just throw them away)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790928/ring-search-party-cameras-default-opt-out
Someone tell these people you don't need to work 7 days a week for... insurance
Next up is experimenting with implementing tests. Sometimes when refactoring a component, Codex will forget to add back an element that was there before. Think a timestamp in the article card for example. I think I can steer it not to forget if it has to check against tests.
* Ask Codex for a first refactor to make sure it follows React best practices, break the file in a few components and lib/util files.
* Prompt away to add features.
Codex is also really good at browsing files, you don't need to attach context manually nearly as much as with Cursor.
If you had a bad GTP-5 experience in Cursor so far, me too and this doesn't compare. I think Cursor might have optimization techniques that make the model way inferior as in Codex.
Some pro tips:
* Start in ChatGPT, it's good for a quick prototype with UI. Ask for the code to be in a Canvas to have live preview.
* When you're happy with a first draft, open your VSCode, scaffold a new vite/ts/swc project, add Tailwind, and your file. Make sure it runs, Codex can help.
It was able to integrate multiple features from the same small prompt, fix UI/UX, but also come with its own UI/UX suggestions. Very impressive.
Also whatever you do don't take people for idiots. The cooking demo was clearly preplanned and the AI was on a script and I think this is the part that failed. Don't blame it on the WiFi.