Paul Cook

Code and start-ups. Full time SAAStronaut 🚀. 🔴 Follow for #saas #startup #buildinpublic #indiedev

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Codex 5.5 if you were wondering.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the state of frontier LLMs in mid-2026.

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@lemire The way token pricing is heading I think **EVERYONE** is going to be running model locally. RIP OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.

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Copilot: Build a cancellation form — but screw it up by using checkboxes instead of radio buttons.

This pretty much sums up AI coding.

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@auOzAI Testing this right now... works great!

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This video needs to be shared far and wide—it’s eye-opening, timely, and explained in a way that’s hard to ignore. Please watch and pass it on.

https://t.co/ViIMqBc5YQ

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My Copilot charges are going up 13x next month, minimum.

Today’s task: research Chinese models.

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This is worrying.

I used the Copilot Billing Preview to see what my projected usage-based billing would be for April.

13x.

That's right—my costs would be 13x what I've been paying until now. And April was a "low" month for me.

Untenable. I'm out.

https://t.co/NtFCiVYrHO

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The one place I really want an AI chat bot, and it doesn't have one...

OpenAI docs.

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Claude, design me a confusing user interface for downloading yourself.

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I thought AI was supposed to be taking over the world.

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I’ve been using Claude & Codex in a multi-agent, multi-session setup for a month.

Happy to report reality !== hype.

Don’t get me wrong—it’s good. Really good. But it still makes fundamental mistakes that I can’t see how a non-developer could be consistently productive.

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Is anyone even remotely excited for this?

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@DmytroKrasun Get into the mindset of celebrating incremental successes (feature delivered, bug squished, etc.). It helps. A celebratory beer also helps!

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Want to make an actually useful bot?

Build one that reads all those social media click-bait posts and summarizes what the actual story is about in the first comment.

You can call it "SavedYouAClickBot".

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@valsopi Then you're a better dev than me!

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Happy to announce that two separate LLMs still cannot align these divs correctly.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, in case you're wondering.

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Somewhat ironically, the only place that doesn't have AI but seriously needs it is GitHub Issues.

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@OfficialLoganK @GoogleAIStudio @tailwindcss Two years too late. How about paying builders for stealing their data in the first place?