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Re:Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Ke... by nullbio on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:08PM (#49313851)
Yeah, but here's a dirty little secret that very few people are discussing:

You can't use Claude for this sort of thing if the goal is to make better AI systems. Anthropic finetunes Claude to dissuade people and the agent from using research that actually works. Anything that they use internally in their own models is poisoned, to protect their moat.

By proxy, that also means any openweights model that was distilled from Claude is equally useless for this purpose.

Thankfully, I don't believe OpenAI does this - they are far more honest and seem to care about their reputation. Anthropic is evil though.

Re:Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Ke... by esseph on Saturday August 15, 2026 @07:13PM (#49315178)
> Thankfully, I don't believe OpenAI does this - they are far more honest and seem to care about their reputation.

Bro. Sam Altman?

Re:Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Ke... by nullbio on Saturday August 15, 2026 @07:45PM (#49315396)
OpenAI is run by its employees and their culture is far healthier. Unlike Anthropic, they don't have a CEO that actively encourages their employees to be dishonest.
Re:Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Ke... by esseph on Saturday August 15, 2026 @11:03PM (#49316522)
They have lost 12 executives in the past year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/open-ai-ipo-red-flag.html

Re:Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Ke... by esseph on Sunday August 16, 2026 @02:16AM (#49317354)