LessWrong posts by zvi
LessWrong posts by zvi
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“Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8” by Zvi
23 minutes Posted May 8, 2026 at 4:43 pm.
A bug made it so that [...] ---Outline:
Whoops, Sorry
Huh, Upgrades
Codex of Ultimate Computer Use
Rookie Numbers
I See What You Did There
Just a Ride
They Didnt Want Our Jobs
Skilling Up
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When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
Now a lot more people are going crazy for coding agents, as well they should given how much better coding agents keep getting, but also Everybody Knows they are good and is focusing on actually using them. With the slower pace of news here it's no longer clear that the waits associated with doing these updates on their own are worthwhile, so I’m going to fold these updates into the weekly again for now unless there's a new major development.
Table of Contents
Whoops, Sorry.
Huh, Upgrades.
Codex of Ultimate Computer Use.
Rookie Numbers.
I See What You Did There.
Just a Ride.
They Didn’t Want Our Jobs.
Skilling Up.
The Lighter Side.
Whoops, Sorry
Claude Code suffered in April from three distinct issues that have now been fixed.
Default reasoning was changed from high to medium to deal with latency, but users disliked this and blamed it on the model. It was introduced on March 4 and reverted on April 7.
A bug made it so that [...] ---Outline:(
00:38) Whoops, Sorry(01:45) Huh, Upgrades(04:13) Codex of Ultimate Computer Use(08:05) Rookie Numbers(09:12) I See What You Did There(11:38) Just a Ride(11:50) They Didnt Want Our Jobs(18:30) Skilling Up(22:08) The Lighter Side ---
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May 8th, 2026
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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BS27ZWW2qwDEq5anx/claude-code-codex-and-agentic-coding-8
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