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Florian Brand @xeophon · 2h
it's depressing how much of the ai safety work is either purely theoretical with no backing of the hypothesis or not open and all you get is a high level, tainted summary
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet by Florian Brand lamenting that AI safety work is either purely theoretical with no empirical backing, or closed/proprietary such that outsiders only see a high-level, 'tainted' summary.

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Florian Brand @xeophon · 10h
I asked the AI to think outside the box and it escaped
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Short joke tweet by Florian Brand about AI safety/containment framed as a pun on 'think outside the box'.

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— quoting @steipete (Peter Steinberger)

Xeophon ✓ @xeophon · 10h This would also explain why experienced devs like to use GPT over Claude. GPT is tool-shaped, Claude is friend-shaped. GPT is obedient and will follow your detailed specs, while Claude allows for vagueness [Quoted tweet:] Peter Steinberger ✓ @steipete · 17h Did some statistics. My productivity ~doubled with moving from Claude Code to codex. Took me a bit to figure out at first but then 💥 [Embedded chart/breakdown, monospace text, commit stats by month and project:] August (4,376 commits) - sweetistics (3,612) – X/Twitter analytics app starts! - poltergeist (245) – Test automation - Tachikoma (208) – New project - vibetunnel (110), steipete.me (105) September (3,056 commits) - sweetistics (2,950) – Main focus - inngest (36), bslog (34) October (7,371 commits) - sweetistics (7,341) – Peak intensity! - tmuxwatch (16) November (7,189 commits) - sweetistics (2,892) – Continued - oracle (1,342) – AI bundling tool - mcporter (491), clawdbot (493) – MCP/Discord tools - codexbar (388) – Menu bar app - Trimmy (254), Tachikoma (236) - wingman (187), poltergeist (137), Peekaboo (135) - tmuxwatch (111), RepoBar (90), markdansi (70) December (7,667 commits) - clawdbot (2,160) – Discord bot heavy dev - sweetistics (1,421) - summarize (928) – Summarization tool - codexbar (663) - RepoBar (556) – Menu bar app - Peekaboo (311), oracle (246), gogcli (149) - vibetunnel (117), bird (107), homebrew-tap (103) - CLI explosion: sonoscli, brabble, imsg, gifgrep, markd... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet arguing Claude Code vs. Codex/GPT preference reflects a "tool-shaped vs. friend-shaped" character distinction — GPT as obedient spec-follower, Claude as tolerant of vagueness — quoting developer Peter Steinberger's commit-count statistics claiming productivity doubled after switching from Claude Code to Codex. Relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and Claude-character threads, and to the practical "coworker vs. autocomplete" framing already in project memory (cf. Opus 4.7 "smart coworker" note) — this is an outside data point suggesting some developers get more raw throughput from Codex's obedience than from Claude's collaborative style.

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