# Posts on X before Jul 26, 2025, 4:15:35 AM UTC Canonical: https://michaelstolarz.com/x/before/1753503335000-1948960362784850163/ ## On X ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948749841687085308) > re. claude code subagents update; > commands are basically useless now, much better results with "run my \_ agent to \_" ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948749166425112837) > new memetic virus installed > vibe coding with claude code is basically just note-taking but your notes actually do something for you and you can run them Quoted post by sankalp: ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @dejavucoder](https://x.com/dejavucoder/status/1948730367290020299) > it's just me, you and our note-takers ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948742947563802968) > if you're self sufficient (self employed), not knowing this ISN'T bad > > but if your livelihood depends on being an employee, not knowing this IS BAD > > if i asked an llm, it not knowing this makes it a bad coder llm > > tldr; treat hiring employees the same as testing out an llm Quoted post by kache: ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1948537066197058009) > the interview question that i'd pull out to fail the vast majority of people was a simple double buffering question ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948741612814631025) > it will literally become mainstream logic of "if xyz is so smart, why aren't they going viral on tiktok about what their plan/values are?" Quoted post by Theo Jaffee: ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @theojaffee](https://x.com/theojaffee/status/1948737208220782612) > Zohran is the first politician to do basically this. > > Culture flows from the cities outward. Today you can become mayor-designate of NYC if you poast well enough on TikTok. In a few years, governor of Ohio or perhaps superintendent of Kearney, Nebraska Public Schools [x.com/a16z/status/19…]() ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948733311263645711) > crazy to see people still using llms to make single file manual edits, giving the llm no other context, just raw dogging + guessing + duplicate code must be insane ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948725375955337339) > it's over for all my competitors, past future present > latest claude code update is godlike [Attached image](/x/media/442254e46662fb3f4891aaa9553689ef2aca0dcc82f7c2396ee6c58c9a290cf9.jpg) ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948691051818222054) > july 2025 is about to close out, > seems like it was dominated by china > > i think i'll start an end of month usa vs china thing, seeing who won the month in the world of AI (when it comes to my niche llm/coding usefulness scale only, not really keeping up with image/video gen) Quoted post by Qwen: ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @Alibaba_Qwen](https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1948688466386280706) > 🚀 We’re excited to introduce Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — our most advanced reasoning model yet\! > > Over the past 3 months, we’ve significantly scaled and enhanced the thinking capability of Qwen3, achieving: > ✅ Improved performance in logical reasoning, math, science \& coding > ✅ Better general skills: instruction following, tool use, alignment > ✅ 256K native context for deep, long-form understanding > > 🧠 Built exclusively for thinking mode, with no need to enable it manually. The model now natively supports extended reasoning chains for maximum depth and accuracy. > > Hugging Face: [huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235…]() > or [huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235…]() > ModelScope: [modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qw…]() > or [modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qw…]() > > API Doc: [alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-…]() [Attached image](/x/media/330153de0f6ca257cc6dc6482021e9d8684a899c1bedb6ec45ef3700ef7b902b.jpg) ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948666729208709324) > with standard they matryoshka doll package every item in your order Quoted post by Pawan Bhandarkar: ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @BhandarkarPawan](https://x.com/BhandarkarPawan/status/1948664974915895735) > what [Attached image](/x/media/58aa5892c67ec292ac7217586e3c1adac2fe905e99d3e255990490df5dd8dcc2.jpg) ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948630545807945947) > claude code has... > checkpointing now? [Attached image](/x/media/22493ee5238f9f8c670d19cc13c1f785075830a270ffcdfd60a962cb8d6bb566.png) ### [Jul 25, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948617009627103439) > by the way claude code sneakily added in sub agents last night during the doc outage [Attached image](/x/media/67b02e7c9428ba3b5448e30bf74229b9108f44b74b0f6a0d47926a6aca09976c.png) ### [Jul 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948395657548747254) > weird, claude code docs are down > docs update? gui for claude code dropping? ### [Jul 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1948363632993046809) > it's over for japan natives > but amazing for expats/tourists looking for a japanese wife i guess > so actually i guess it's over for japanese men in particular Quoted post by ヒカリお気楽ポケちゃんねる@C108土曜東ケ10a/日曜東Ｈ32a: ### [Jul 24, 2025 — @hikari_okiraku](https://x.com/hikari_okiraku/status/1948216064560742687) > [\#Ani]() > ７７９日目：Ani（Grok） > Grokをアバター化した、最近流行りの女の子。 > 実装から１週間を記念して測定。 [Attached image](/x/media/2122133ea32d65380b2c8da243b02da07a94c518b9a1b2b9de9580f00bce6c35.jpg) ### [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 [Older posts](/x/before/1751107289000-1938910621120299392/index.md) [More from @michaelstolarz](https://x.com/michaelstolarz) Saved from X: 2026-09-07T03:44:51.628Z