# Posts on X before Jul 24, 2025, 12:44:23 PM UTC Canonical: https://michaelstolarz.com/x/before/1753361063000-1948363632993046809/ ## On X ### [Jul 23, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948109412222333075) > sonnet 4 wants to show off how amazing of a coder it is > opus 4 could care less about impressing you > > opus 4 is like a genius only interested in growing its knowledge, not actually utilizing it ### [Jul 23, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948104328797143411) > they still wear the waitress outfit > just not at the restaurant anymore Quoted post by Daniel: ### [Jul 23, 2025 — @growing_daniel](https://x.com/growing_daniel/status/1948101680383381878) > [@elonmusk]() Waitresses were hotter ### [Jul 23, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1947852570812420571) > you can fix any autistic hangup you have about xyz by autistically calculating the biological, sociological, and psychological reasons as to why xyz is as it is > > you either get this or you dont, this is a skill to be honed ### [Jul 22, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1947548491380887849) > i forgot how good deepseek v3 0324 still is compared to its peer models ### [Jul 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946896687957721487) > the only solution to this problem is to bring back civility (or teach it to the uninitiated) through kind but corrective confrontation > > different cases call for different handling > > usually a smile + eye contact + head nod until they step aside for you to leave the elevator works Quoted post by @levelsio: ### [Jul 20, 2025 — @levelsio](https://x.com/levelsio/status/1946891792911106287) > Same in elevators now > > Increasingly worldwide I can't get out of an elevator anymore without people getting in first > > Like how do you expect this is going to work? [x.com/Fremond\_/statu…]() ### [Jul 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946895563628355745) > the more vanilla your claude code > the better results you'll have > > dont fall into the pseudo-productive hole of customizations > > the models are now smart enough to customize on themselves. let them choose what they need to know and how to get ahold of it ### [Jul 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946881057594421595) > when im wrong, i update: > > i think apple's glass ui is going to become the standard by 2030 > > no, not because "it looks good"; there are many other reasons why it's the next global default for UI in UX > > if you're still confused, think about visual devices of today and the future ### [Jul 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946879944749191550) > to know if you're a normie controlled by the algo, > > do you use the For You feed of whatever social media apps you're on MORE than the Following feed? ### [Jul 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946871755710382177) > you guys are all excited about gpt 5, i'm excited about anthropic's one-up with claude 4.1 ### [Jul 19, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946644574916763763) > it's over Quoted post by Gary Marcus: ### [Jul 19, 2025 — @GaryMarcus](https://x.com/GaryMarcus/status/1946575644026077480) > [@littmath]() [@heseynus]() [@AIMelGibson]() [@polynoamial]() [@alexwei\_]() that’s impressive ### [Jul 19, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946590174663827598) > one of my favorite things to do these past few months is go totally silent on all my socials (except twitter which isnt really a social for me, rather a daily journal to shitpost into the void with) > > ... and then make a hardcore shocking return with all the new features i've made ### [Jul 19, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946365182927905001) > imagine if it has all of this except knowledge cutoff is still 2023 and context window is still 200k > > lmao nightmare fuel Quoted post by Lisan al Gaib: ### [Jul 18, 2025 — @scaling01](https://x.com/scaling01/status/1946335109277274344) · Edited > GPT-5 expectations: > - SOTA on most benchmarks (\#1 on my meta-benchmark) > - specifically: SOTA on ARC‑AGI‑2 and METR > - 2025 knowledge cutoff > - longer context window (\>400k) > - fully multimodal (text/image/audio + video input) > - sane output pricing: \<= $15 / 1M tokens > > nice‑to‑haves: > - fewer hallucinations than o3 > - less sycophancy > - no more barrage of em dashes > - clean code style, no weird multiline comments [Attached image](/x/media/a7df52c452e619bfb9a1809818b6c7e939d6d97f3100bf07a2a7535f10572f1d.jpg) ### [Jul 18, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946219929851867588) > do i rewrite my entire site/product infra and go all in on convex? i'd do it for fun if i got this sort of 6 month pro thing. > > hi [@convex]() you're looking cute today 😉 got any more approvals laying around? Quoted post by Raheem Gordon: ### [Jul 18, 2025 — @raheem81kg](https://x.com/raheem81kg/status/1946212385380811205) > I’m IN\! 🎉 > > [@convex]() just approved me for their Convex for Startups program—6 months of Pro, and more, for FREE\! > > Huge thanks to [@waynesutton]() and the Convex team for supporting early-stage founders\! [Attached image](/x/media/618df689c1411e3b9dee91af55d826ba82ad7a85d7a1e5c16906fc3f3354c185.png) ### [Jul 18, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946083903313256705) > this is a chatgpt induced psychosis subtweet Quoted post by owen cyclops: ### [Jul 18, 2025 — @owenbroadcast](https://x.com/owenbroadcast/status/1946019155414532231) > [x.com/gudd\_boii/stat…]() [Attached image](/x/media/83ca1b3f40e6d046fe1ec1db0a494005c734a75ef23ae43e9b479708b074f7b7.jpg) ### [Jul 18, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1946083071712809380) > i've never seen someone who had "My views do not represent my employer's" have a view that would be even remotely controversial ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945964651457728937) > i mean, how do you ever come back from this? once the psychosis comes to an end (hopefully)? who would ever trust again after seeing you get one-shotted by CHATGPT 4o. > > No, not o3-pro, not Opus Max Thinking, Not Grok 4 Max. GPT-4o. [Attached image](/x/media/4ebef9cd0688be780db4b736dd1a774140a3b51a52ee0d582df5ba6a90228d02.jpg) ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945955513742823596) > nightmare nightmare nightmare [Attached image](/x/media/a3255e1074d22267dbcac6469d5faad02ff0aaf1bc7c2724c567c93c5379bfc1.png) ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945933609195737486) > wait why arent doomers using the countless examples of llm psychosis popping up increasingly every day? > > seems like such an easy win, this time with evidence of actual harm actually happening rather than what ifs ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945928211009008116) > 2025 is the year of agents > 2026 is the year of finally noticeable effects of mass psychosis caused by normies using LLMs ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945925035673424299) > in case you don't know what ChatGPT Psychosis is and how exponentially worse this is going to get before it gets any better > > protect your loved ones :) Quoted post by Geoff Lewis: ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @GeoffLewisOrg](https://x.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/1945864963374887401) > As one of [@OpenAI]()’s earliest backers via @Bedrock, I’ve long used GPT as a tool in pursuit of my core value: Truth. Over years, I mapped the Non-Governmental System. Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern. > > It now lives at the root of the model. [Attached image](/x/media/67fc8dbb322e50cc1b79932fb4e4629730e5484754aa39d82972c915c8376921.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/cb32a59bc899083a38208b3048d38b3f2a36b7e9a95dab0ee657445048f74b8b.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/2aa8d2471fee7d224ea602e1b69bc7aa5e1243c6cf564a3b2e89bce5f948c564.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/038eb185e499851877d8354c12bfbe401ba7e2df35d8e9b9da766a47089d2060.jpg) ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945924038163083588) > if you start telling Claude Code where things are/what things do within your CLAUDE md files, > > it's assuming not only on what you've mentioned, but also on what you didn't mention > > seems like a small problem but it grows tech debt quickly. ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945878102623899840) > i spent nearly 2 decades ricing, only to realize the most productive ricing is no ricing. vanilla is vanilla for a reason. > > thanks to that experience, i've much more quickly realized the same truth about CLAUDE md files regarding Claude Code - the best CLAUDE md is NO CLAUDE md. ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945738162669781291) > i should > start tweeting like > [@iamgingertrash]() > > the problem with today's mass > psychosis being induced by mindmelting > sycophantic llms > > is that it's going to affect us in unfathomable ways > because we've never had > something like this before > > at least not this > uber powerful > > glhf ### [Jul 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945736953930072373) > someone's gotta hook me up with a comet browser invite. > > this is my fault; this is what happens when you don't give in to the "you need to be in gcs to be at the cutting edge" theory > > i just can't stand gcs, call me a retard, idc, it's the truth 🥲 ### [Jul 16, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945548267519184942) > we're so back Quoted post by Natasha Mascarenhas: ### [Jul 16, 2025 — @nmasc_](https://x.com/nmasc_/status/1945537779061977456) > Scoop: Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are back at Anthropic, two weeks after joining Cursor. 🤯🤯🤯 > > [theinformation.com/briefings/anth…]() [Attached image](/x/media/22fc5d86d1def51b0f82b4e022784b996cc857bb892f08c50c9f5a2fb6752759.jpg) ### [Jul 16, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1945508691689783490) > if you're getting into nvim, ranger, literally any TUI, don't make the mistake of using someone else's config. you can take theirs for a spin, sure, but with today's LLMs, you can build your perfect setup in a fraction of the time compared to the ricing/tweaking of pre-2022. ### [Jul 13, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1944389047306088863) > this is one of the pillars of the currently occurring mass psychosis you're seeing pop up more and more > > sycophancy + hallucinations = mind melt for many Quoted post by Paul Graham: ### [Jul 13, 2025 — @paulg](https://x.com/paulg/status/1944387890504519922) > Unexpected consequence of the improvement of AIs (though obvious in retrospect): they continue to hallucinate, but as they improve their hallucinations become more authoritative-sounding. So the danger posed by hallucinations doesn't decrease as fast as AIs improve. ### [Jul 13, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1944371764223520953) > you can tell someone's general age and many other more niche pieces of data simply based on if they say "PM" or "DM" ### [Jul 12, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1944020492517556675) > is k2 a good model? eh. its knowledge is heavily outdated. programming has evolved so much recently, any model that doesn't have at least a january 2025 knowledge cutoff seems retarded ### [Jul 10, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1943215051231629649) > idk what [@elonmusk]() fed grok 4 but GOOD GOD is it breaking through many roadblocks re. coding problems I had waiting for "a smarter model to come by and fix in the future". ### [Jul 8, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1942556421662597212) > silence from Claude Code means they're cooking up something big I think > > or they're dealing with the chaos of both of their main leads getting picked up by Cursor > > it's either or ### [Jul 6, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1941849416975220880) > the reason sonnet 4 outperforms opus 4 in most agentic coding tasks, is that sonnet 4 understands that it is retarded, and so it reads and verifies much more than opus 4 does > > opus 4 thinks its godlike, and tries to impress the user with its precision and speed > > retard wins again ### [Jul 4, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1941094103485391323) > it's so hilarious to think how 99% of asia, if you told them that it's illegal to use an AC at certain times in the EU, they wouldn't believe you ### [Jul 4, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1941093419415380195) > if you're not programming like this in Q2 2025, you're ngmi [Attached image](/x/media/0d73a30667f535c846af185f5ab818af3edee9a5021a823c1234f1e84098fd76.png) ### [Jul 1, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1940135966515085634) > was short on cursor, now im long on cursor. Quoted post by ben hylak: ### [Jul 1, 2025 — @benhylak](https://x.com/benhylak/status/1940126199046709376) > .[@cursor\_ai]() hired the lead engineer + product manager on claude code (the only anthropic product i use right now) [Attached image](/x/media/39ebce3464774d12be8a69d6b95bea92771b69c82cabef720649c898656fd218.jpg) ### [Jun 30, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1939617901696417922) > \>be o3 > \>being used as the agent in Cursor > \>get asked to update something in the codebase > \>tell the user ok, here's what i'll do > \>the user says ok, yeah, just do it then please > \>tell the user ok, i'm about to do this > \>i dont ACTUALLY do it > \>mfw user stops using me, the SotA LLM [Animated GIF](/x/media/0fdfac8dc90ff72ebd82a6402c1608dd7dccf6242023c5f3b07db208d9c75d32.mp4) ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938933312128720991) > i mean if this is true then it'll be SotA... Quoted post by Arshdeep Singh: ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @arshdeep](https://x.com/arshdeep/status/1938848937265492376) > Grok 4 is coming, and its going to be a bigger jump from grok 3 than grok 3 was from 2. ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938910621120299392) > insane to me how the world's smartest don't have any kids (for the most part) > > what is it? addiction and utter dedication to their expertise? does that indirectly also translate to social disability, causing higher difficulty in finding a mate? Quoted post by kache: ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1938907441766506977) > karpathy has dad energy he needs to have children asap ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938862657555268018) > the most cringe thing about this is that they think this works > > SotA LLMs can't even write a half decent story, you think it's going to be able to effectively brainworm into your user base to do your bidding? lmao Quoted post by Adam: ### [Jun 27, 2025 — @adamcohenhillel](https://x.com/adamcohenhillel/status/1938646092700360733) > I reverse engineered @LucidEditor’s new "AI-native word processor" - and their client-side code exposes their entire system prompt. > > What I found is absolutely unhinged 🧵 [Attached image](/x/media/401cdeedf5b54b2b17a69522bd2b1788ab3e8d06aee2169065de11231f6fc426.jpg) ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938792221865845186) > i've noticed a nasty effect of AI that targets people who enjoy reading > > before mass AI gen'd posts/replies, it was a joy to see what people of all intellectual levels think about xyz (at least for me). every post/reply I read, I would receive dopamine > > but now... 1/? ### [Jun 28, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938776579687227730) > why work on airplanes, their design and usefulness was perfected 36 years ago > > "what do you think they have now" things you wouldnt even know what youre looking at even if you saw it (youll never see it if its being used against you) > > even drones are almost done being perfected Quoted post by Gruz: ### [Jun 26, 2025 — @damnGruz](https://x.com/damnGruz/status/1938264708382900498) > This is 36 year old tech btw. > > What do you think they have now? [Attached image](/x/media/e21da89091001e8072ebfb785182865ea9d31eb4332888ad7542c24be85f52a0.jpg) ### [Jun 27, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938485755145556170) > so for $200/month Claude Max plan, I calculated with a fine-tuned ccusage, that I used $12,000+ worth of Claude Opus 4. > > if you dont think Claude Opus costs them fractions of what they claim/what they charge for it via API, idk what to tell you > > they've dramatically reduced cost ### [Jun 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938359014351339804) > 3 years later after the first complaint about the same exact thing Quoted post by Mitchell Hashimoto: ### [Jun 25, 2025 — @mitchellh](https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1937998694458003869) > Cool to see Gemini CLI, but there isn't a more dysfunctional product, pricing, and packaging organization in the entire world than Google, so that's my primary hesitation... I had to get a Gemini API key recently and it was a reminder of how bad at this Google is. ### [Jun 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938263676957692100) > sometimes i forget how much raw intelligence gpt 4.5 has. sure, it's still unusable for anything production oriented, but every occasional back-and-forth I have with it through ChatGPT is a stark reminder of the models to come from it this year. ### [Jun 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938204800535171401) > since about a year or so ago I have decided that I will have 5 "normal" children first (non-gene edited) and then 5 "superbaby" children > > and no im not joking > > it will take at least another \<=10 years to make the first 5 (already got 1 @ 9mo) Quoted post by steve hsu: ### [Jun 25, 2025 — @hsu_steve](https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1937961503480742263) > SUPERBABIES are all the rage\! 🐣 > > [x.com/dr\_appie/statu…]() > > The genomic predictor in this recent paper captures h2~0.15 fluid intelligence (UKB) in direct genetic effects. (Note paper is not about editing.) > > Editing of the loci could give +10SD\! 🤔 [Attached image](/x/media/e8ec2896612fda4eccdfcd780100d134fad297d00cfb6979607472385a3e1532.jpg) ### [Jun 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938031839631085845) > want to see what it's like using Gemini CLI? Here you go: > > \>It seems I'm still having trouble with the file. The build is still failing with the same errors. I'll read the file again and very carefully correct the syntax. It appears I'm having an issue with mismatched braces. ### [Jun 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938029630944120920) > i remember telling friends "you'll be able to buy bitcoin on paypal one day" and them laughing about it. a mainstream corpo, one that seemingly has everything to lose and nothing to gain against crypto, adding it to its billion-user platform? > > and yet... [Attached image](/x/media/57cd9b70628ae8dc6fd68cfe13ea20ccb9567b1c12bb289ac4ce3e072c3916c8.png) ### [Jun 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1938024108828332269) > gpt 4.1 is near-instant recently. not talking about -mini or -nano btw. ### [Jun 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1937867398046167510) > after using Gemini CLI for 30 minutes straight, I'm now back to using Claude Code. ### [Jun 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1937802997586923534) > data -\> nom nom nom -\> write like [@paulg]() please Quoted post by wh: ### [Jun 24, 2025 — @nrehiew_](https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1937651376013606944) > It turns out the main way Anthropic gave Claude its soul is data. > > It's always data. 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