trying to remember what it was like to code before codex
TECHNOLOGY
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Shows Major Progress and Competitiveness
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Gemini 3.5 Flash has made huge progress from 3.1 Pro on GDPval, Flash is competing at the frontier, post training going strong 🙂
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OpenAI integrates ChatGPT into PowerPoint for slide creation
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OPENAI : ChatGPT is now available directly in PowerPoint, allowing users to create and edit slides. PowerGPT
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Gated DeltaNet-2: Hybrid Attention Architecture Advancement
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Gated DeltaNet has been one of my favorite "hybrid attention" newcomers in the good old transformer stack.
Excited to see Gated DeltaNet-2. Adding it to my reading stack. In the meantime, I have a primer on Gated DeltaNet here: https://
magazine.sebastianraschka.com/i/177848019/26
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Codex enhances engineers’ focus
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6/ The thread beneath all five. Codex isn’t used to write code faster. It’s used to handle the work that disrupts focus. Reading. Refactoring. Testing. Scaffolding. Background tasks.
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Scaffolding a New Project with Codex
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4/ Scaffolding new work. The initial setup of folders, modules, and API stubs for a feature. The boilerplate phase. Engineers use Codex to generate runnable code in minutes, then begin the actual problem-solving work.
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Reading unfamiliar code with AI assistance
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1/ Reading unfamiliar code. When engineers get pulled into a part of the codebase they have never touched, they point Codex at it first. For onboarding. For debugging. For incidents where you need to understand a system in minutes. This is the most common one in the report.
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Google accused of lazy benchmaxxing of models
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Nah, thankfully Google is lazy and just benchmaxxing their models at this point
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Local-first automation: Scalable token for non-technical users, no cloud risk.
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4/ The main reason I keep this running is that it is local-first. Everything runs on my own device, so there is no cloud dependency or data leakage risk. For anyone non-technical who wants to automate tasks without learning how to use a Terminal, it completely scales your token