> It allows me to inject determinism into my workflows.

Did it though? Because if the model can just change underneath at any time and it breaks the determinism, then any determinism was just an illusion the whole time.

Hooks are hard stops. In theory the model must respect them, unlike Claude.md or agents.md so yeah, it helps a lot.

Yes, in theory. But these are inherently non-deterministic systems interpreting English prose. It's not the same thing as a real honest-to-God program that executes a deterministic algorithm to verify the output.

I can't believe we've sunk this low, to start complaining that the non-deterministic black box didn't respect "YOU MUST DO THIS" or "DO NOT DO THIS" commands in a Markdown file. We used to be engineers.

That has never been true.

Skills are not like hooks. Skills can and will inevitably be ignored.

Skills are not ignored if you use a router in front of them, and they are actually called.

The problem is the base harnesses don't call them aggressively enough. Not that they don't work.

No, you're supposed to make all your hours work hours. This is the way of AI.

I love how it's just a tacit understanding that these companies' entire MO is to carve out a territory, get everyone hooked on the good stuff and then jack up the price when they're addicted and captured -- literally the business plan of crack dealers, and it's just business as usual in the tech industry.

I was recently introduced to the term "vcware", ala shareware or vaporware, to describe these products. "Don't use that, it's vcware, enshitification is coming soon."

Facebook is of course a company that had ONE idea, which wasn't even original - trick people to use the service and then use their data in inappropriate ways. I believe their original business plan was "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

They scaled that idea, made a lot of money doing it because of course, bought up a bunch of companies who themselves had original and ethical ideas. But they were never allowed to shine brighter or step out of the shadow that is Facebook, who still believes their customers are "dumb fucks". That never changed and Facebook's current customers, employees, shareholders, and targets of acquisitions need to remember that and never kid themselves about who Facebook is.

I don't see what model I'm using on the Codex web interface, where is that listed?

They would read it and just say to themselves "Wow, how could anyone fall into that trap? Certainly I never would!"

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> After all, you can still just review the diffs

The diff: +8000 -4000

You can ask it to make the changes in appropriate PRs. SOTA model + harness can do it. I find it useful to separate refactors and implementations, just like with humans, but I admittedly rely heavily on multi-provider review.

I've always said if corporations were governments they would be totalitarian fascistic dictatorships. This is just them evolving to their final form. No idea why anyone would want to work at a corporation like Meta by choice the same way I don't understand why anyone would move to North Korea, but I guess the money is just that good.

Generate a lower resolution image and upscale to the resolution you need.