George Lydakis

Senior Software Engineer @AWSCloud. Tech talk & coding journeys here.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@OpenAIDevs @nicdunz I see gpt-5o 🛰️

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@jxnlco No, I don’t even like it within plan mode. I want to discuss with the agent not answer questions.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

Don’t know what everyone’s saying, this looks sick.

[Motor1 @Motor1com]

Ferrari’s first electric car is finally here: Meet the Luce.

• 1,035 horsepower
• 2.5 second 0-60, 192-mph top speed
• Most aerodynamic Ferrari ever

The Luce starts at €550,000, or about $640,000. What do you think? https://t.co/JRo7ujGnI8

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@dwarkesh_sp Random feedback, the classroom lectures are great, but I feel like you have to watch the video to follow them. I usually listen in the car, so I end up skipping those episodes even though I want to listen. I won’t watch a 2-hour video, but I would listen while driving.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@adibhanna @dev_maims probably AI generated, the thumb clusters can't be so far in.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@krzyzanowskim @thekitze I replaced Backblaze this year with this utility I built that backs up your stuff to S3 Glacier. I used it to back up 3 TB of raw files from my photography the past 5 years.
https://t.co/1hoC9V3Sul

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

I wish there was a xmedium setting for GPT 5.5

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@kylebrussell @mweinbach I can see Medium too, I’ve been finding High to be overthinking and using too many tokens. Feels like High would shine with a higher context length than 400k.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

Switched from @superwhisper to @WisprFlow. Performance is great, but there’s so much spam in the app and notifications.

I don’t care about any of that. I just want dictation. No other notifications or workflows.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@Jason I'm in!

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@RewindAI was ahead of its time

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Last week, we released a preview of memories in Codex.

Today, we’re expanding the experiment with Chronicle, which improves memories using recent screen context.

Now, Codex can help with what you’ve been working on without you restating context.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

gpt 5.4 high fast on codex behaves weirdly similar to gpt 5.4 pro extended on chatgpt today. Lots of code blocks in its explanations🤔🤔🤔

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

Typescript > Python

[AWS Developers @awsdevelopers]

coffee first, everything else second

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@X

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

Hot take: Opus 4.7 is a half baked step towards a right direction.

[Florian Brand @xeophon]

Always choose optimism over fear

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

@Two_Above @VictorTaelin I agree, I felt 4.6 also leaned closer to the gpt style of promoting than 4.5, and 4.7 is even closer.

[George Lydakis @lydakis]

That's the future right there.

[Ari Weinstein @AriX]

@rbranson Why use computer when computer can use computer