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My prediction: soon (e.g. a few years) the agents will be the one doing the exploration and building better ways to write code, build frameworks,... replacing open source. That being said software engineers will still be in the loop. But there will be far less of them.

Just to add: this is only the prediction of someone who has a decent amount of information, not an expert or insider

I think that’s fair.. building a competing product would likely be relatively easy and inexpensive. But that’s true for most software now: it’s becoming easier to build, and the barriers to entry are lower.

I love Anthropic and OpenAI equally but some people have a problem with OpenAI. I think they want to reposition themselves as a company that actively supports the community, open source, and earns developers’ goodwill. I attended a meeting recently, and there was a lot of genuine excitement from developers. Haven't seen that in a long time.

Send an DM on twitter to @edfixyz (one of my account) and I'll reply with a link to the website tomorrow to give you a sense. Can't share a link here, it will kill my backend.

Care to have a phone call with who you call a bot tonight?

If so, send a DM on twitter to @edfixyz with your phone number and I will call you immediately. Or give me your twitter handle.

I'm tired of that BS - when people don't like what you write they call you a bot.

I'm not a bot. You are saying that because for some reason you resent people who have a good experience with Codex / OpenAI. Curious what that is - people hate the CEO or what?

I like Claude Code too btw.

The crazy thing here is that I wrote the initial comment myself!

> In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more.

I don't think it is the best way to look at it. I think that now every team has the power to build and maintain an internal agent (tool + UX) to manager software products. I don't necessarily think that chat-only is enough except for small projects, so teams will build agent that gives them access to the level of abstraction that works best.

It's a data point but this weekend (e.g. in 2 days) I build a desktop + web agent that is able to help me reason on system design and code. Built with Codex powered by the Codex SDK. It is high quality. I've been a software engineer and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away.

Got it, thank you for the insight.

The assumption is that Claude has access to a stream of fresh, currated data. Building that would be a different focus for Anthropic. Plus Thomson Reuters could build an integration. Not totally convinced that is a major threat yet.

I'm not really understanding why Thomson Reuters is at direct risk from AI. Providing good data streams will still be very valuable?

I've yet to attain full-stack mastery in my job, but Musk has already attained capital stack mastery.

> "immoral technofascist life"

Many people would rather argue about morality and conscience (of our time, of our society) instead of confronting facts and reality. What we see here is a textbook case of that.

I played the bot (probably early 2025) and wasn't that impressed. I won 5-1 or something like it. I did win one or two local chess tournaments in the past but I'm really not an impressive chess player.

Curious how this new design addresses the biggest safety challenge of nuclear reactors (the issue that was the root cause of the Fukushima accident and an indirect cause of Chernobyl): how do we ensure that the nuclear core temperature remains controlled during exceptional events (e.g., earthquakes, structural failures) when the reactor must shut down abruptly?

This comment is totally unnecessary. There are tons of skilled American engineers who aren't extremists / activists.

I'm just wondering why governments think it's a good idea to regulate ads. IMO that is something the market (e.g. the users) should take care of.

“You know as well as we do that justice, as the world goes, is only a matter between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” From Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.

I personally think this quote explains the Trump administration’s worldview far better than anything Trump himself would say.

There is no doubt that OpenAI is taking a lot of risks by betting that AI adoption will translate into revenues in the very short term. And that could really happen imo (with a low probability sure, but worth the risk for VCs? Probably).

I'm based in the US and I tried twice to create an account for Hetzner (a personal account as well as a company / startup account). They rejected all my attempts. I don't quite understand their business model :)

My understanding of YC is that they place more emphasis on the founders than the initial idea, and teams often pivot.

That being said, I think there is an opportunity for them to discover and serve an important enterprise use case as AI in enterprise hits exponential growth.

I was staying in a apartment in London a long time ago and a Sunday(!) bailiffs came and kicked everyone in the building out in 3 hours. The reason was that the rent hadn't been paid to the building owner by the management company. Most people just left and lost the rent they had paid. These things happen and there are no protection for tenants unfortunately.

The fact is that, for a long time, British kings considered themselves kings of France as well - and even believed that France was the senior kingdom. The language they spoke reflected that attitude.

That said, as a Frenchman who has to speak English every day, I can assure you that English has long since become its own thing!

Totally. Mini apps and mini-app stores are already developing in crypto (Farcaster, World,..) and the approach may well become the primary way to deploy advanced and secure apps going forward.

Most Americans are growing skeptical of DEI as an ideological framework and that helped Trump.

This suggests two possible paths forward: either we move beyond the theoretical underpinnings and focus on practical inclusion — supporting people from diverse backgrounds through approaches with broad consensus.

Or DEI becomes increasingly marginalized, championed primarily by masked activists who struggle to maintain relevance.

DEI has become such a contentious term that we should consider retiring it, in my opinion.

We can disagree on this. From a product perspective, I think they’ve delivered - bringing cutting-edge AI to hundreds of millions of people. They’re also making progress in specific verticals (Codex is really impressive when used well).

I can’t speak to the purely financial side, but it’s definitely possible they’re overextended.

Wang doesn’t strike me as an inspiring AI leader, and Meta’s AI leadership and strategy feel unclear.

Hopefully they’ll address that soon, because in the meantime OpenAI is executing and shipping.

Fully disagree. OpenAI has 800 millions active users and has effectively democratized cutting-edge AI to an amazing number of people everywhere. It took much longer for the Internet or Mobile Internet to have such an impact.

So "boring" ? Definitely not.

A partial explanation is that money flows to money-market funds & CDs. Reference: https://wolfstreet.com/2025/09/12/money-market-funds-cds-ame...

But let's not forget that is someone is selling stock and getting USD, someone else is buying and giving USD, so the overall effect may be limited.

Just wondering what is the plan in case this thing you have gets lost?

And would you say that using something like authy with encryption using a totally unique password is safe?

Crypto has delivered a lot of great projects in the past 10+ years: * A new store of value (Bitcoin) * Programmable money with a lot of innovation still happening (Ethereum ecosystem) * Fully compliant chains for decentralized finance and payments * Fully compliant solutions for enterprises (Ripple and tons of others) * Projects that support financial inclusion worldwide (Stellar is awesome) * Stablecoins - basically stable, open, regulated money with lower fees * Privacy is the next focus with zero-knowledge (a very impressive tech) is being integrated * ... and a lot more ...

Sure, some people thought buying tokens was a way to become rich quick and lost money. Yes, some projects were not regulated and the regulators need to catch up. But overall progress is impressive imo.

WalleD gardens and walleT gardens - e.g. micropayments will make it possible to monetize data to the fullest and every users will need a wallet to access anything fresh online. That seems to be the trend, but I suspect a counter-trend will emerge too.