Dylan Mitic

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[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@Willob 🐐🐐

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

incredible read for understanding how people are using codex and who is using codex.

lots of interesting things to learn and patterns to notice.

[David Holtz @daveholtz]

🚨 New research alert! For the past few months, I've been a part-time visiting economics researcher at OpenAI. Excited to share the first public piece of work to come out of this, which uses data from Codex to document the ongoing and rapid shift to agentic AI.

Details below 👇

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

agree, high AI spend inside an organization is (very) often a symptom of poor allocation rather than high utilization.

hence how some companies see drastically different outcomes for equal or more token spend.

couldn’t have put it better than @rahulgs and well worth a quick read

[rahul @rahulgs]

it is simultaneously possible to spend a lot on AI and still underuse it, esp in larger orgs

we're seeing this with meta, uber, and many other orgs instituting budgets

some factors are at play:

1. cost of the frontier comes at an enormous premium: fable -> glm 5.2 is a 10x dropoff in cost

2. tragedy of the commons, in large orgs, much safer to always default to larger model at a higher reasoning effort. ends up in a situation where most features/people are on too high of a setting, resulting in 2-3x more spend than needed

3. very easy for runaway automations, openclaw bros, subagent accidents, to create a lot of spend quickly

results in a very skewed distrubtion of usage with a small number of people/features with high usage

to counteract these issues, and avoid internal budgets (for now)

1. we changed defaults across the company to lower reasoning levels, across surfaces

2. thinking about the p50, p75, p95 session. cost to PR/cost for support ticket/cost for session, and actively compressing model tiers (gpt 5.1->5.4-mini) over time

3. banning automations from using frontier models, and high reasoning efforts, and using flex api tiers (adds up to 75%+ savings)

tldr before you institute budgets, try these first

more in the blog:
https://t.co/L5HnjstvI8

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@jackgwhitaker @tylercosgrove Congrats!

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@ashishjayamohan that's one acceptable exception

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

immediately skeptical of folks who take the 101 over the 280

have you no appreciation for a scenic route, even if it adds a few minutes?

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@marty_kausas finance needs to catch up lol

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@IbrahimS15 @PalmerLuckey @mttgrmm W drink choice @PalmerLuckey

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

i’ve tried to consistently use at least two or three different model harnesses every day.

i’m quick to pick favorites, but it’s also quite interesting to see the variation across different models and harnesses for different tasks.

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@kylejeong @UCLA congrats dude!

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

locked in so hard that i've lost my personal computer

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@brendan_salgado @Polymarket scarce, hard to debase, outside government control, instantly transferable, and programmable.

everything the dollar and gold alone can’t be.

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@oyhsu Love to see it

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

just did my weekly rep of searching for the apple tv remote between the couch cushions

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

i truly believe there has never been a better time to study computer science/engineering

which is why this is crazy to see

[a16z @a16z]

College CS enrollment is declining

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/O1SZEaWPFX

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@samsheffer looks like @OfficialLoganK found a new houseplant

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

if you reason from fundamental realities and incentives, you arrive at conclusions that are both more optimistic and more probable

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

@Willob reading this after spending my night having chat generate ocean robots for my copycat landing page... bummer I have to actually do a little work

[Dylan Mitic @DylanMitic]

this is what the future of engineering looks like.

if you’re resourced to do this, i think you absolutely should be. if you don’t have the resources to operate this way yet, figuring out how to get them should be a p1 priority. you are now competing against teams with massively leveraged engineering output.

we are no longer just building software. we are building software that autonomously builds more software.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

The latest CodexBar update renders API costs wayyyy nicer. https://t.co/lJ4dxNHwzG