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I use voice typing heavily because it saves me a lot of time. So I asked Claude/Codex to build me a desktop app. They built a damn good one works like a charm. Still blows my mind that a dummy like me can get this done.
keep reading — 1 min ↗I feel like a kid in a candy store thanks to AI coding tools.
keep reading — 1 min ↗Artificial general intelligence (AGI) for normal people is here.
keep reading — 10 min ↗keep reading — 2 min ↗With vibe coding, people often report not realizing until hours, weeks, or even months later whether the code produced is any good. They find new bugs or they can’t make simple modifications; the program crashes in unexpected ways. Moreover, the signs of how hard the AI coding agent is working and the quantities of code produced often seem like short-term indicators of productivity. These can trigger the same feelings as the…
keep reading — 3 min ↗So, my verdict is: GPT top. Then there's a big gap. Then there's Grok, followed by Gemini 2.5, which might well be right that it's impossible. Gemini DeepThink, which really isn't worth the money, and at the very bottom, there is Claude. I think this illustrates what the current models are good for and what not. What they are good at: they're really good now at digging up related work and explaining it, which is good for…