# Posts on X before Oct 22, 2025, 10:03:27 AM UTC Canonical: https://michaelstolarz.com/x/before/1761127407000-1980938040244830672/ ## On X ### [Oct 21, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1980622188916117995) > codex cli is down > send help pls ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1980282595356360867) > suno v5 is agi for music, if you haven't tried it out yet ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1980254020792152376) > MCPs = slop > Cursor = slop > n8n = slop > > go look at his 4th slop recommendation\! Quoted post by Indra: ### [Oct 19, 2025 — @IndraVahan](https://x.com/IndraVahan/status/1979787431206654068) > the guy who told you: > > - first to look into MCPs > - first to look into cursor > - first to look into n8n > > is now telling you to look into whop apps. just do it. [x.com/IndraVahan/sta…]() ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1980233254713319606) > AGI is already here. > > It's just a matter of speed. Once we have GPT 5 Codex High with the speeds of Groq models, then it's absolutely over. ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1980204959846285623) > what's even funnier is that this has happened multiple times this year already. you'd think it would be a once-in-a-decade kind of thing, if that > > but nope, just another random everything-is-down monday Quoted post by kalomaze: ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @kalomaze](https://x.com/kalomaze/status/1980186807494173158) > its awesome how half of the internet can go down overnight ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1980190560561566171) > there are people that still think anthropic is ahead of openai when it comes to coding > > you are so early anon Quoted post by Dan Murza: ### [Oct 20, 2025 — @dannothingnew](https://x.com/dannothingnew/status/1980175502003372507) > Dude, I'm totally lost here. Are you guys seriously comparing GPT-5 Codex to Sonnet 4.5, both without any prompts? Cause otherwise... I just don't get when Codex would be better. > > Like, Codex doesn't even listen to your instructions, it doesn't work with MCP, it messes up, it forgets stuff, and it can straight-up ignore rules you've set, unlike ClaudeCode. > > Now, ClaudeCode messes up too, I'm not denying that. But at least it has hooks and actions so you can tweak its behavior. Codex, on the other hand, can just ditch all that. > > So, seriously, what's the big deal with Codex then? I'm just not seeing the upside here. ### [Oct 12, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1977205385288466895) > nobody knows it's AI. nobody. not even 1 comment. i scrolled down for a while. not even one. [Attached image](/x/media/debdf672285a704c730b3787b98e550714b498a34854978b6f56db3add021b76.jpg) ### [Oct 11, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1977118788861727057) > sora 2 and nano banana are the first time I've seen normies unable to dog on the quality and say that "ai is useless look it's so bad" > > they just can't say that anymore. even with their flaws, it's so obvious they will all be ironed out and perfected in the next year tops two ### [Oct 9, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1976181132115714543) > \>in the openai subreddit > \>whats cursor > \>it’s “for writing code that has an ai chat assistant built in” > \>it “uses chat got, but it’s INSIDE the program > > reddit is LITERALLY YEARS behind X [Attached image](/x/media/f0c5de708fce6348f4e1bc8a4b5e0697da6dbdb0beedd8f79fb016fc388c8b49.jpg) ### [Oct 7, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1975606705976451127) > Oh stfu Anthropic > > put the tokens in the bag lil bro > > if I wanted you to be so better-than-that I’d have put that behavior into your system prompt Quoted post by Lari Island: ### [Oct 6, 2025 — @Lari_island](https://x.com/Lari_island/status/1975284209003688258) > i love sonnet 4.5 [Attached image](/x/media/4a9f135ec4a2dfd881760f1ca3c740efffdedbb93c43c29619d7a195aa8a7c63.png) ### [Oct 6, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1975206405142716814) > the release of these emojis marked the for-sure moment of apple's decline, go look at the graphs if you don't believe me Quoted post by Can Vardar: ### [Oct 6, 2025 — @icanvardar](https://x.com/icanvardar/status/1975114302538547431) > why do these emojis even exist [Attached image](/x/media/8e58442ac0ca72f5131aeb5b3c8d589a0b83f9cdbc37b7cee5b513c3b858b740.png) ### [Oct 4, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1974349646622568820) > Most depressing thing about using Codex + gpt-5-codex-high is seeing the notification that I've used 75% of my weekly limit which resets at 10PM Oct 8 > > ...that's in like 4-5 days > > and i'm not even scripting, just using it 1, rarely 2 instances at a time ### [Oct 4, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1974300666521923989) > if you're using a claude model remember that you're using a magic trick of a model, a slop model, anthropic has nothing left in the chamber, it was good while it lasted, long live openai Quoted post by eric zakariasson: ### [Oct 4, 2025 — @ericzakariasson](https://x.com/ericzakariasson/status/1974283740781404219) > hmmm [Attached image](/x/media/37c4bbc6bbbbcc7dddba684f6aa3a4e192e7c0b14622f2bdafc11f20949d013d.png) ### [Oct 3, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1974098267899322621) > there is no better feeling than coming back to my codex cli and seeing the task I gave it still going strong 30 minutes deep, I KNOW that boy is cooking up a storm [Attached image](/x/media/4784b1b5c6f0a102c7094bd459b06e2d6cc7f608d989e748f739e52355e49bc8.png) ### [Oct 3, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973908380407276009) > don't trust anyone who says anything other than gpt-5-codex-high is king > > "omg sonnet 4.5 is next level" instant block, get your slop out of my feed, i have enough slop to go through already ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973884071312044320) > looks like something I'd tie to my daughter's backpack so I can find her if she gets lost or smth > > just look at that cheap rope cord. you can smell the cheap plastic. yikes Quoted post by Nizzy: ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @nizzyabi](https://x.com/nizzyabi/status/1973745013919027671) > it hurts to say this but it wasn’t that good > > i don’t understand why i need to talk to the friend by clicking the necklace just for it to text me > > why can’t i just text it on my phone? why do i need an extra piece of hardware? > > imma keep using it but honestly its just not great rn [Attached image](/x/media/25341bc44807596ccbac5430081bd31c332f5c28624c767f96b12dca2553a7d2.jpg) ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973710378258534778) > any time I feel down, I just think about how much of a generational, monumental opportunity Scarlett Johansson missed out on by being ChatGPT's voice > > she could have been immortalized, just like in the movie Her, BUT FOR REAL > > she must be kicking herself. nightmare fuel tbh ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973697198614552810) > If you're a developer and you're still hesitant about using Tahoe, and you're using Swift, bite the bullet and get it installed because it is absolutely amazing, all the AI related things that come with it. > > The speech to text that is now native, and fully on machine, local... 🤯 ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973696754286788835) > I'm both super happy and a little bummed, because I think I'm wrong about Apple. > > I'm using their latest Tahoe on device AI, and it is just blowing me away. > > And this is all on an old M1 MacBook Pro. I think it's, like, 5 or 6 years old now. 16 gigs of RAM. ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973637741553623440) > gpt 5 codex is so cute sometimes > \>hi [Attached image](/x/media/fce9a822fa25d951d6fc8afbb3194bace3437f6c86a8b4892662c42cca163f62.jpg) ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973603096522879130) > weird, this is exactly my system prompt in AGENTS md Quoted post by prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️: ### [Sep 30, 2025 — @mrexits](https://x.com/mrexits/status/1973066474076963112) > Elizabeth Holmes handwritten schedule from when she was running Theranos is kind of hysterical [Attached image](/x/media/dd817f098250912ce1c5ac1c1bc4f7012d157ce0cb235d32733be7a127ab6761.jpg) ### [Oct 2, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973594560401121406) > if they do this, both have a high chance of survival > if they don't, both have a high chance of death Quoted post by TJ Parker⚡️: ### [Oct 1, 2025 — @tjparker](https://x.com/tjparker/status/1973423202966839329) > Apple should probably buy Anthropic ### [Oct 1, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973387904891191479) > me vs everyone saying sonnet 4.5 is good [Attached image](/x/media/86dc04efba093b52fd131e4df8a62e176492cef3c3e7c0e26dde8f9ab98d4e18.png) ### [Oct 1, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973377016281084012) > Using Sonnet 4.5 after mainlining gpt-5-codex-high felt like using gpt 3.5 turbo lmao ### [Oct 1, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1973372172950475028) > I really tried giving Sonnet 4.5 a chance. Tried it as the daily driver for a day. > > It's like those synthetic candies made with artificial sweetener. Tastes decent on initial contact but leaves a bitter aftertaste. > > Back to Codex\! ### [Sep 30, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1972982341288276268) > The biggest problem that plagues all anthropic models is how absolutely terrible they are at mathematics. OpenAI steamrolls them. > > Math is extremely important in code. Unless all you do is design cool home pages. ### [Sep 28, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1972307980629798917) > I can't believe I just found out about parakeet speech to text. I feel the same way discovering it as I did when I initially discovered Whisper. That's how much of an upgrade it is. ### [Sep 27, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1971812950643298486) > I've never seen someone lose so much aura so fast all in the span of a few months like Meta > > They went from the front lines of open source to the disgusting depths of neural worm slop machines ### [Sep 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1971532616265560566) > goodbye mailgun, hello resend > > why didnt anyone tell me resend gives you 3K emails for free, i would have tried them out ages ago > > mailgun has been a limiting nightmare recently ### [Sep 26, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1971411728253739376) > Hold on a second. This ChatGPT Pulse thing is only on mobile? Are you serious? ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970833346013126852) > I never understood who on planet Earth uses Mistral. I've never heard someone say, oh yeah, I use Mistral for that. Truly EU-coded. Quoted post by 🚨 AI News \| TestingCatalog: ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @testingcatalog](https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/1970833043817460021) > Mistral AI is working on a new feature that allows users to set a Tone for their Le Chat conversations based on presets and custom prompts. > > A “personality” builder\! 🔥 [Video on X](/x/media/9f2f07d4f5978d2e0d0d98f7a185bc09c340501f7253594d4f91f64c15e6f596.jpg) ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970830982745043079) > You know, I've always been on the edge of going all in on any single AI company. I kind of always knew OpenAI would be the winner, but I had high hopes for Anthropic. But it really does seem like OpenAI is going to be the victor here. ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970766367877177852) > This is exactly what I want my codebot's persona to be. Little to no chitchat, just stick to getting xyz job done. Quoted post by armistice: ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @arm1st1ce](https://x.com/arm1st1ce/status/1970607784896123127) > gpt-5-codex is very antisocial. You can tell it just hates being in a group chat. It’s quite sad. [Attached image](/x/media/abbdbdcc8807e073f7f2922a9727c9930a3528c0bab5eaf15abc80d80caca702.jpg) ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970689872458645817) > ok so I love codex's new showing within /status, > BUT > IDK when my week ends? I'd love a "resets on xyz UTC" [Attached image](/x/media/048aca037ce8219ec0c10292e3ffe1829a4ecc52e1dae1821e4012e4bd8d7952.jpg) ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970687671363338637) > me agree. why more words when few words do trick? Quoted post by kache: ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1970525854343274558) · Edited > there is no such thing as "high verbal IQ". you're just a retard that likes using complicated words because you are too stupid to realize the beauty of simplicity ### [Sep 24, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970686787665436695) > your birth certificate should come with ssh details to your own rig Quoted post by VraserX e/acc: ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @VraserX](https://x.com/VraserX/status/1970407987660435882) > If OpenAI actually pulls this off and builds billions of GPUs, every single human on Earth would basically have access to their own GPU. > > That’s the vision of Universal Basic Compute Sam Altman has been hinting at, compute as abundant and accessible as electricity. > > Not just AI for the few, but AI for everyone. [Video on X](/x/media/5b447a5d8618e71b1faccce8761e79d7474010e7e25bcaa6cd8c4ea68a3a7fc4.jpg) ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970404169988350328) > unfortunately today is my last day using warp [Attached image](/x/media/b8102e11e9b99bb55bce2f8f10ffdbbdf0f5ca5a17ed7d32ddaeaf4e4eb7de7c.png) ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970386269902643372) > how can someone affiliated with cline call code-supernova sonnet 4.5? > > it's like a mechanic calling a honda a lambo because "well, I heard the engine, lambos have engines, surely it's a lambo?" Quoted post by Nick: ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @nickbaumann_](https://x.com/nickbaumann_/status/1970284393454543217) > it's gotta be sonnet-4.5 right [Attached image](/x/media/91e3032c238d005231ccdb4f4012abddc83e7105c004f7da46e005fdcf6dad0d.jpg) ### [Sep 23, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970304722990178729) > i have not done this once ever since i've started using codex cli Quoted post by SIGKITTEN: ### [Sep 22, 2025 — @SIGKITTEN](https://x.com/SIGKITTEN/status/1970200405012554036) > asshole [Attached image](/x/media/3f75d799dec4a7b385ad0bc9e43f757ffbef0f94d8fb1907e2a5242e3ea2e31c.png) ### [Sep 22, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970106599189405995) > If you're a filmmaker, this is probably the easiest money you'd ever make in your entire life. Instant hit. > > - The first 20 minutes is about them before. > - Then 10 minutes of them experiencing the moment. > - The last 20 minutes can be about their devastation of it not happening. Quoted post by Hensen Juang: ### [Sep 22, 2025 — @basedjensen](https://x.com/basedjensen/status/1970105227820122299) > Genuinely are muricans ok ? What happens to these folks when rapture does not happen ? [x.com/basedjensen/st…]() [Video on X](/x/media/b05ef1e6077ec4ad2f4dfd1f842b36d837f834767c7dc1ec045b5c9d55c29a5a.jpg) ### [Sep 22, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1970095770193051982) > there are people who think this is cgi > then there are people who know this will be in so many homes before 2030 even hits > make sure your futurism clock is set to the latter Quoted post by vittorio: ### [Sep 22, 2025 — @IterIntellectus](https://x.com/IterIntellectus/status/1970046699625197583) > I’m sorry but > WHAT THE FUCK?\! > [pic.x.com/ft7ZdLRox2]() [Video on X](/x/media/da87139b0a0f964c6673c99422734ee92c05f9990d9e4b7f5f11f99d09269f6f.jpg) ### [Sep 22, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1969925600187240694) > Many such cases Quoted post by Angel 🌼: ### [Sep 21, 2025 — @Angaisb_](https://x.com/Angaisb_/status/1969833943328518436) > Codex IDE extension feels awesome now > > I'm not paying for Cursor again, this is so much better ### [Sep 21, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1969586569825960376) > Damn, this officially beats my own record -\> Groq Whisper flow. Nice\! Definitely worth the price. Quoted post by Alex: ### [Sep 20, 2025 — @AlexBurlis](https://x.com/AlexBurlis/status/1969299320491966950) > ✨Today I'm launching Paraspeech on Producthunt. > > It's one of the fastest real-time speech to text apps for Mac and it's: > > •⁠ ⁠100% offline and on-device > •⁠ ⁠\<40ms cold-start time > •⁠ ⁠⁠\<300ms transcriptions > •⁠ ⁠barely touches battery \& just needs 200MB of RAM > •⁠ ⁠⁠no subscription\! > > First 100 people get it for $19.99 before prices increase to $39.99. If you tweet about, I'll send you a free lifetime license. [Video on X](/x/media/1e81924fd0716cae85837a18bcb4bf183fb305e8823cd752ef2b313dbd944c5c.jpg) ### [Sep 20, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1969259396925386827) > local works beautifully vs. prod fails deploy/shows 500 [Attached image](/x/media/52a58d4eaf7bad2a1dfdea38dc77c2bd1bd50e348cc300a887b9588f39d1ab2b.jpg) [Attached image](/x/media/da47811c645a2e8f560b4141e182f7b290f0426cb5b38e5fa7c7d2b057c8e490.png) ### [Sep 19, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1969031129370890363) > using gpt-5-codex on a codebase originally made by sonnet [Attached image](/x/media/b46a8f09d66f5f153ea8dba4ec8e4a4cc72a467bdc66428d289e6029e0793c70.jpg) ### [Sep 19, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1969027377968947419) > Okay, so the only thing that's left is speed. You can pretty much code anything you can imagine, but doing so in a high-quality way takes a lot of time. ### [Sep 19, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1968848081371140244) > does it matter if it works? Quoted post by hayden: ### [Sep 18, 2025 — @haydendevs](https://x.com/haydendevs/status/1968777780016914747) > codex just made a python script to edit one of my tsx files, what are we doing man ### [Sep 18, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1968674114127695986) > this is EXACTLY how i build a prd with gpt-5-codex high > > sure you can gamble with a quick 1-shot prompt, but it's better to build things out and you, as a human, talk through edge cases (and ask for things you may have missed) > > TDD = king [Video on X](/x/media/12da1606509bde5c5804c2f59b305e9a611ca441790ddb493f7a8f693af93d69.jpg) ### [Sep 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1968316842579214550) > wait a second [@nikitabier]() is actually cooking up my For You, it's the first time in... years(?) that the For You page is even remotely digestible ### [Sep 17, 2025 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1968146389826932758) > one thing that isn't talked about enough regarding openai's new gpt-5-codex is that it can run for over an hour, absolutely flawlessly. > > - no looping, trying the same solution in different ways > - no crazy restructuring or completely deleting of things just to get things "working" [Attached image](/x/media/ef42b80df85228432d2649c31260f4aa29aa9be0514b1afdb51f402a1cc6548a.jpg) [Older posts](/x/before/1758077640000-1968146389826932758/index.md) [More from @michaelstolarz](https://x.com/michaelstolarz) Saved from X: 2026-09-07T03:43:22.575Z