throwup238
6 hours ago
Twenty years ago this would have been “I Wanted to Own My VIM config, Then [Insert IDE] Won”.
The perennial question is, have you gotten any actual work done or are you now just configuring Codex Desktop?
> Then the seams became my job.
Has Codex started overusing “seam” too? I thought that was a Claude-ism.
Really the AI generated title image should have given it away. Shame on me I guess.
preordained
6 hours ago
> Has Codex started overusing “seam” too? I thought that was a Claude-ism
Honestly, it's pretty good about this. Its terms are pretty fitting. Load-bearing, seam, etc. I'd actually say these were nice gifts to our developer parlance.
Nevermark
6 hours ago
These words can definitely help in isolation. But I have noticed that when discussing anything complicated, the sum is far more ambiguous than the parts:
"fold", "honest", "answers", "pins", "frame", "hinge", "ground", "world", "mint", "captured", “trace”, “door”, ...
The increase in indirect references, tendency to "describe, not show", "indirectly reference, not show", and high density of uncommon metaphors, can leave some of Claude's longer and more complex responses impossible to parse.
I have fought back with some, but not total success.
gjvr
5 hours ago
Yep.
And, the following made me smile. Not just the em-dash.
Prompt: can you please verify that your proposals do not increase the complexity of the design and are really needed?
Response:
No—the earlier proposals were not all justified. The review found avoidable complexity and I revised Questions 62–66 accordingly:
vardalab
5 hours ago
Sol 5.6 loves seams. I never heard the word mentioned until Sol 5.6 before that it never came up. Now everything is the seam, lol. At least it doesn't bear any load.