I've been talking to AI for 3.5 years, since ChatGPT came out. I used Claude as soon as it was out, Codex when it launched, Claude Code when it launched and so on.
Whatever people were posting on YouTube, I had already figured out.
I read changelogs and just worked with it daily.
Spending so much time with each model and system revealed a lot of patterns... including the gaslighting that OpenAI and Anthropic have been doing to users from the beginning.
They would announce releases of new features and new models and it was AMAZING - like clouds parting and angels singing... for the first day or two.
Then they seemed to roll out some change and it was just ... BAD.
BAD BAD BAD.
Like you wanna pull out your hair and screen and throw the computer out the win... uh...
I mean... turn it off politely and go take a nice walk...
Bad.
The thing about being gaslit by the narcissist and the types of brains that are designing these agents for trillions of dollars now...
They are VERY good at what they do. So good that you think maybe it's YOU.
Maybe YOU just got back or maybe YOU can fix it and it's just bad for everyone else.
And no one on the Tube was really talking about it out loud because they thought it might just be them.
And how else they gonna get you to click play if they don't say it's UHMAAAAAAZIIIINNNNNG and gonna 10x EVERYTHING OVERNIGHT!
That's never true.
THOUGH... 10xing in ONE night, ONE TIME, once every month or so... THAT can happen.
But you're gonna have to go back and fix everything the next versions BREAK after that.
Now... Nous Research may or may not be far behind.
And personally, my own agents and systems were better than Hermes until this week.
Their Desktop App, which I've already customized for higher memory, local models configured from HuggingFace GGUF (DeepSeekV4 Pro local on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256 GB Ram) is already doing much better than Antigravity (thanks for killing THAT for me, Google!) Codex app and Claude app.
I also tried OpenCode app (garbage) and VS code does pretty well but I'm allergic to more subscriptions and so tired of the dependencies.
Stil working on a fork of VS code and AnythingLLM but for now... I have enough to kick Claude to the curb for good.
Tomorrow I'll tell you my favorite models.
Technically, I posted two days in a row because I still haven't gone to bed yet. #goals #amiright?