[redanddead]

I read this as a bad sign for Anthropic. Relying yet again on more hype instead of improving products.

OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, whether through luck or structure. The “no-name” guys have actual taste. I love that. I don’t care that they’re no-names.

I don’t know Karpathy personally, I won’t speak bad about a man I don’t know. I hope he makes CC better. I just read this as hype. My point is that there’s nothing he has that an empowered no-name product manager doesn’t. It’s like Alex Wang at Meta. That acq didn’t redeem Meta. They actually lost LeCun. Where’s Llama today?

Regardless of what Anthropic’s share price is, OpenAI has been fucking killing it recently. I don’t take particular pleasure in saying that, i’ve been a google and gemini guy for years

My lens is meritocratic. My experience is as an extremely heavy user of both company’s full suite of products in the range of 5 digits per month. My interest is better products not hype.

[sigmar]

>OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, the guys have actual taste.

Can you cite specifics? "I won't speak bad about someone, but also won't speak good about others" resulted in a comment that seems to contribute nothing

[redanddead]

I judge them from a meritocratic lens.

I’m hoping Karpathy will make Claude Code better, in the meantime I’m super happy seeing a small product manager like Tibo fucking crushing it on Codex

[woah]

Where are you following the comings and goings of small no name product managers like it's a baseball team?

[sigmar]

clearly the employees that tweet the most must also have the best contributions to R&D... </sarcasm>

[redanddead]

That’s not my claim.

My point is that product velocity is visible in shipped workflow improvements, not prestige hires

Prestige is fickle, look at academia today

[redanddead]

Hahaha wdym? Where have you been dude?

Joking aside, there are small communities pushing codex and AI to the bleeding edge of what's possible.

Here I'll give you an example. The last few updates from Boris at CC have been tweaks to the system prompt to make it use less compute, effectively making the system dumber, making it tell you to go to bed. I mean come on! Tibo has been impressing me, bc they're building the things these small communities are building.

One of the things these bleeding edge guys and girls have been working on is a /goal feature, essentially ralph loops. Codex released it as a feature the other day. I can't help but be impressed. As an ex-pm, this is product management.

Then you take a look at what the Chinese are doing on their own forums, and it just makes what Google and Anthropic are doing look outdated. OpenAI feels competitive, which I like. What's coming will not be kind to us, we adapt or we die.

[blackqueeriroh]

Anthropic has had goal for a bit.

[redanddead]

nice of them to put it in the mac app recently

[worik]

This is true for all the UASanian frontier model owners

They are all going to get their lunch eaten by the Chinese.

In the USA with access to most of the world's capital, they've succumbed to the temptation of "bigger, faster, harder"

Whilst the Chinese, with enough capital only, have had to think.

The Chinese models are already miles ahead on cost/inference basis and will probably pass all the USAnian companies in five years

The age of UASnian engineering dominance are coming to an end.

Let's all hope she goes quietly - not at the moment

[viking123]

I really hope the Chinese win this, the Epstein class deserves everything coming for them. Btw, the Chinese president is much more moral than any of the creeps leading USA currently, just see the wikileaks cable assesment on Xi Jinping and why he was not part of the Epstein class.

[vondur]

It feels like these companies are constantly going back and forth on who has the best product constantly. It's such a dynamic time with how fast they are both working.

[viking123]

95% of people notice no difference between opus 4.7 and like 5.5 high or xhigh

[vondur]

Boy, not if you read the comments from people here. Every new version is *so* much better than someone else's and they have switched all their projects over to it.

[scottyah]

OpenAI seems to be dumping a LOT of money into marketing on social media at least.

[xmcp123]

To be fair, Mythos is probably one of the most significant marketing pushes in the industry in both impact and investment.

I am sure there is an element of reality in it's capabilities, but there's also a significant amount of "We don't have the compute to handle this at scale", and "look look, we have the best model. It's so good that you can't even compare it to other models. That is how good we are."

[redanddead]

I’m noticing a real disconnect in the user base about this

The Claude maximalists that can never see any wrong in anything and the users that care about actual capability

These guys are going to be in for a rude awakening when the Chinese are steamrolling us with data centers you can see from space and better models, Amodei will tell you that himself

[xmcp123]

Hey, it's not like the Chinese have a serious demographic crisis they can't cope with, and their only hope is to significantly increase productivity per worker.

[trollbridge]

The USA does too, but it seems all we can talk about in America is how workers are "obsolete".

[redanddead]

Anyways, what do you think the solution is to that?

[redanddead]

I’ve been using Claude and Codex extremely heavily and use adblockers so I don’t see them

[Avicebron]

I think they mean the paid shills

[redanddead]

Whenever I see a user base turn against actual users or imply censorship or discredit actual experiences it always ends in a death spiral: Deny -> Product stops improving -> Censor -> Die

Adapt or die

[munk-a]

Anthropic as well. The private equity partnerships for guaranteed users are going to make their numbers look great.

[misiti3780]

really - what am i missing?

[redanddead]

It just feels like more hype instead of product focus.

Example 1, just from top of my mind, Composer 2.5 released today. Go look at their benchmark.

Composer 2.5 and Opus 4.7 ranked around the same, meanwhile gpt-5.5 was miles ahead.

You wouldn’t have caught me dead using a gpt model 2 years ago

[j_bum]

Curious what you mean by killing it? Products? Model quality?

[redanddead]

Dude, both! Codex is going to eat Openclaw… i don’t love saying that.

What codex is a few steps away from doing is changing fundamentally a lot of workflows.

Remote codex with their computer use is basically you at your computer doing things, 24/7.

Then they added gpt images 2.0

what codex can do, in a few more product iterations, is show you visually side by side “would you prefer this (A) or that (B)” in a series of questions. This is what some open source researchers have been up to. That’s no longer guessing.

I’m not trying to hype a company i have no stake in, but they’ve been killing it.

It’s extremely compute intensive, but also very satisfying.

[scottyah]

Codex and openclaw are both "owned" by openai, and most of the features have been in claude code for awhile now.

[redanddead]

To be fair, Claude Dispatch was really cool. I had to wait a good 3 weeks for Codex to come out with remote

[felixgallo]

Out here in the actual demonstrated world, OpenAI has been leaking quality people like a sieve, has not yet demonstrated anything remotely similar to 'taste', and is led by a sociopath (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...), so I think you can rest easy.