>small group of people who are essentially driving all this all across the world in every industry.

The federal reserve?

>Where are the salary bumps to reflect this?

Revenue bumps and ROI bumps both gotta come first. Iirc, there's a struggle with the first one.

Which paper?

Recursive Language Models by Alex Zhang/MIT

@dworks: Good insights. Thanks!

If you add a dialectic between Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 (not the Codex variant), your workflow - which I use as well, albeit slightly differently [1] - may work even better.

This dialectic also has the happy side-effect of being fairly token efficient.

IME, Claude Code employs much better CLI tooling+sandboxing when implementing while GPT 5.2 does excellent multifaceted critique even in complex situations.

[1]

- spec requirement / iterate spec until dialectic is exhausted, then markdown

- plan / iterate plan until dialectic is exhausted, then markdown

- implement / curl-test + manual test / code review until dialectic is exhausted

- update previous repo context checkpoint (plus README.md and AGENTS.md) in markdown

adding another external model/agent is exactly what I have been planning as the next step. in fact i already paste the implementation and test summaries into chatgpt, and it is extremely helpful in hardening requirements, making them more extensible, or picking up gaps between the implementations and the initial specs. it would be very useful to have this in the workflow itself, rather than the coding agent reviewing its own work - there is a sense that it is getting tunnel visioned.

i agree that CC seems like a better harness, but I think GPT is a better model. So I will keep it all inside the Codex VSCode plugin workflow.

Humans are too lazy to bother.

Money can motivate even the laziest, sometimes.

This explains all the crypto shilling.

>particularly high profile example would be the plot to kidnap a state governor a few years ago.

iirc that was something more than infiltration. The FBI found an extremist loser who lived in a basement, egged him on, helped him network & gave him resources. Without them, he probably would have been thinking really hard about it, not much more.

That's basically the FBI's MO.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-terro...

Munger's Law - Agents know they'll never get recognition or promotions by rounding up hothead wannabes.

Can you say more?

New to webdev, coming from graphics:

What is better than react? I started with direct dom manipulation and it was a nightmare for making a 'modern' experience.

Eh, I stuck it in a docker container with pass-thru to my repo directory and I feel pretty safe about letting it fly.

Then again I dont work on anything serious.

I've been using 5.2 a lot lately but hit my quota for the first time (and will probably continue to hit it most weeks) so I shelled out for claude code. What differences do you notice? Any 'metagame' that would be helpful?

I just use Cursor because I can pick any mode. The difference is hard to say exactly, Opus seems good but 5.2 seems smarter on the tasks I tried. Or possibly I just "trust" it more. I tend to use high or extra high reasoning.

>I could spend an hour and have a full setup done on physical or VPS to have 1) remote git hosting 2) pipelines running on changes 3) pipelines publishing images or some artifacts 4) automated deployment for these images/artifacts

This sounds like a week or two of work to me (I'm a novice though). You should write a guide.