I don't know about you, but my notion that my social security check is all I will need to survive my retirement years died when my father started drafting his own social security in the 2010s, and it was literal peanuts after being a small business owner his entire life (restaurants) and paying more than his fair share in taxes. Do the average folk still have this notion that social security = retirement? Hopefully not, it's certainly misguided now, but it was misguided then, too.

They let other tech companies break the ground, release something new and truly innovative and unique -- say a folding phone (it's basically a solidified meme amongst the IT crowd now - "Oh Apple will get all of samsungs features from 2 years ago finally!" -- not realizing that this is intentional), and they will let them front all the risk of whether or not it has staying power -- then they will come in and innovate at the margins and bring it into the Apple ecosystem, which is an advantage in of itself at this point.

The goalpost moving is getting exhausting.

Would I trust to let an AI, with zero human input or oversight, to diagnose, come up with treatment plan, and ultimately operate on my l5/s1 disc that's been bugging me for the better part of my adult life?

Would I take a novel drug "discovered" by AI (I mean entirely by AI, no human input, remember we are talking AGI) that promises to cure some chronic neurological disorder?

In both of those cases, they are the biggest hell-no's I can emphatically say.

Until I can say hell yes to that question, we aren't close.

Preempting those who say "Well your doctor/drug companies are probably mostly using/going to be using AI to do that" -- not what we are talking about here, and in both cases, not AGI (and I would probably find a new doctor)

Hopefully you are apprenticing many junior engineers!

For many that lived during the times of the Stazi in East Germany, or late Soviet days, or currently in China and North Korea however...

Ask one of those people who survived those regimes and ask if they should "just get over yourself" -- it shouldn't be too hard to find one.

- Starting my career during the beginning of and through the peak of the open floor plan office trained me to use headphones as a signal to others that I wanted to be left alone / needed to focus on my task. Now I catch myself doing it in other contexts subconsciously, like the gym, and have to stop myself sometimes to make sure I am doing it intentionally. I am at the age now where like you, I either prefer silence, or reminisce about the bygone days where people struck up conversations, past the usual pleasantries - just deep conversation with a total stranger that you may or may not ever see again, which wearing headphones takes away that possibility.

- silence is generally, in my opinion, for content people and/or people not struggling with a mental illness. I'd venture a guess that our field skews towards people who have negative internal voices. Having something playing as a distraction can take you away from those destructive thoughts. I had to do a lot of cognitive behavioral therapy and soul searching to be content with silence.

99% of us got to grow up without the fear of military violence, and go about our lives.

"microservices turn function calls into distributed computing problems"

- St John of Damascus

Thank you for recognizing this. As much as the developer community has come out against companies non-competes in the past, we should come down on even harder on one of our own stealing, because this does the most harm against the case against non-competes. It's grosser in the sense that one company doing a foul thing is bad, but ideally people can band together and work to dismantle the foul thing. But a person legitimizing the foul thing is the greater harm.

Obligatory YMMV, maybe your prompting style fits gpt better. We forget that this matters a lot

I have codex right now purely because they gave me a month free of ChatGPT Pro, so I have been using it in between my usage resets with claude. Since it's "free money" for me I have been using it exclusively on xHigh.

One of my most frequent prompts is "hey codex worked on ____, but it didn't quite hit the mark, can we review the work..."

Yes, part of this is normal even within the same model -- you have the highest power model review the work for correctness, refactoring opportunities, and so on, but man I tell you, I don't know what it is about codex, this is obviously one guy's anecdote -- same prompting style, same repository documentation ala MD files, same skills, way different results.

All that to say, maybe the bug report is on to something here, and it can be fixed.