[Cheer2171]

The author wasn't doing "AI research" before and neither was GPT5. This is not at the frontier of anything, it is just an already solved problem in training that GPT5 found. Had the author been willing to actually do a Google and GitHub search, or just twiddle the training knob parameters enough on their own, they would have found a better solution than working alone.

Also this footnote:

> Alone” here is relative - I did use ChatGPT and a bit of Copilot to generate some of the training code in my last attempt. I just didn’t use any agentic tool

I have no words. I wonder if this "AI researcher" can make it through the original Attention Is All You Need paper without an LLM.

[tim333]

I don't think he claims to be an "AI researcher". His CV has:

>I built significant pieces of the Copilot onboarding, purchasing, billing and settings flow. For eight months I headed up the Copilot anti-abuse effort. I then led the launch of GitHub Models, and am now working on other Copilot projects.

As an aside I had a look at GitHub Models and it was quite interesting - you can try the API for a number of models for free using your GitHub login.

[gs17]

The article is titled "GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me", so I think it's easy to think he's referring to himself as an AI researcher. He does say "I don’t have any illusions about this making me a real AI researcher", but it's the very end.