Rittik Basu

i code, therefore i am

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

built a dashboard for my hermes agent so i can track how much it is costing me to "just let it cook"

also credit to @grimcodes for the dither kit charts and @jimmyverburgt for the svelte port

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

as much as i've been loving gpt-5.6 i can't put into words how much i hate this new codex update

@OpenAI please hide the chatgpt desktop stuff under settings and make it a toggle. i just want codex to feel like codex again😔

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

fwiw, I think that turning Codex into ChatGPT Desktop is a generational fumble

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@iraftopo do it! there’s something very satisfying about making old hardware useful again

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

brought my old laptop back from the dead, put xubuntu on it and now it belongs to hermes agent

time to sidequestmaxx

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@pradeepcep haha no the phone didn’t flip it this model just opens in the most cursed way possible. i was following a disassembly video and apparently the keyboard side separates away instead of the back half so everything ends up looking upside down

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@aravindballa you should try gpt-5.6-sol on the same task. curious if it does any better than glm

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

also yes that is an expired credit card on the table that i used as a pry tool because i couldn't find anything else

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@benln lfg i'm in

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

You don't need a LinkedIn, you need a page on your website describing and linking to what you shipped

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@vimtor not yet but this looks really interesting. i was planning to try running hermes agent inside a container but still haven’t gotten around to it

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

bryan gets so much hate and i get why the whole don’t die thing can sound ridiculous but putting a man on the moon probably sounded ridiculous too. then we did it

i honestly think he’s pushing the frontier. whether people like him or not he’s moved the overton window on health

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Nassim has been pretty tough on me, saying

"the contempt...disgust I have for your brand of non-stoical neurotic overoptimization."

But you know what, I really like Nassim. His books are great, his perspectives are unique, and I enjoy how he thinks.

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@bryan_johnson ngl i read the first sentence and thought the moral was going to be that we used to watch people run and now we are the people running

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

been getting a few of these lately @OpenAI

i was literally just trying to come up with names for my side project. the only cybersecurity risk here is me picking a bad name

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

new record and still going

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

i left codex running before i went to sleep and this is what i woke up to🤯

guess the inference cost for this run.

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@CJHandmer this is the best part of having ai. it makes it so easy to chase little side quests that would've been left unexplored otherwise

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

also don't worry this isn't vibecoded slop and won't be a cpu hog. in my testing it stayed under 1% cpu while active.

https://t.co/AiczfcBzvE

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

loved this idea from @KunalKSavita but i wanted it to work everywhere and not just the browser.

so i built lucent.

it's a tiny macos menu bar app that syncs your wiz lights to any screen or app window on your mac.

[Goonal @KunalKSavita]

i built something :)

today, i’m announcing aura. sync your smart bulb’s color to the vibe of your music.

and all open source.

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@aravindballa @OpenAI basically instead of asking me for every command codex would send it to a guardian model first and if it looked safe it got auto approved. so i didn’t have to click approve 500 times.

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

@OpenAI where did my guardian approval go 😭

i got this feature a week ago and it was perfect. guardian would approve safe commands so i didn’t have to give codex full access for long tasks. updated codex and it was gone.

please bring it back before full access nukes my mac

[Rittik Basu @_rittik]

agent browser is so good!

a few months ago i was scraping a site and it took me a few days to get the data reliably. this time i just gave codex the prompt, it used agent browser, found there's an internal api we can use instead of scraping the dom and got all the data.