spencer

PHP Developer / Father of 5

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

I remember looking at what I did yesterday and just wondering why

[Filip Kowalski @filippkowalski]

As a software dev, do you remember those times where you couldn't figure out something the entire day, went to sleep and handled it in 5 minutes the next day?

I think that every software engineer used to have this pride and a sense of accomplishment when they managed to solve a hard task, issue, build a complicated but beautiful website, or animation.

This is now gone, as anyone can do it by nagging the LLM long enough until they solve it...

Ok, in some cases, you still need to know how to navigate the LLM, but tackling hard challenges is a different story now.

The challenge, the dopamine is gone, so I guess we need to find it somewhere else:)

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

Just got sonnet 5 on mobile

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@joerj @OpenAI @lovablia Nah each one is clearly going to have a set of effort levels

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@satyanadella Considering ms is the os and a load of first party apps why is this inside of excel and not something that plugs in to everything from the os level

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@joshhfm @matabebesok @DevBySami Same max

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@claudeai Fable and Sonnet 5 today please 👍

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@joshhfm @DevBySami No it was there yesterday

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@rezoundous Sonnet 5 is going to be insane

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@claudeai with all that new capacity please announce the 50% weekly limit boosts are now permanent. Instant huge win.

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@Grummz Looks really good, wasn’t interested before as I lost interested very early into 3 which was a flop for me. But holy shit this looks cool

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@athasdev Big Helix 🧬 fan. All I need is like a 5 line config and I’m good to go

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@grok just gave the cli a go, and wow this is by far the best looking and feeling cli agent I’ve used.

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@hambleton_j @jturntdev Use tmux dude, just attach back

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@theo @suchenzang GPT 5.5 low has pretty much taken over the low-medium complexity range for me completely. Just use high or opus for planning

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@SiVola @antigravity They have fallen off so hard. At one point it felt like they were so close to bringing it all together TPUs, model, apps etc now I see absolutely no reason to use Gemini for any serious work or coding tasks

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@peterrhague Nothing beats this nice refreshing can of lager

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@dhh @OpenAI My experience exactly. Been using nothing but 5.5 low since release

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@asaio87 I do. And roll out features weekly.

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@jasperdevs Please will this into existence 🙏

[spencer @chemicalheadset]

@JinjingLiang @simonw The sweet spot for 5.5 seems to be medium, high and xhigh add a lot more output tokens for not much gain unless you really need it