Oh For Fuck’s Sake: OpenAI Finally Notices Other People Make Code AIs Too

Right, so apparently the geniuses over at OpenAI have just discovered—after waking up from their beauty sleep on a pile of investor cash—that Anthropic went and built Claude Code, an AI that actually works for coding without shitting the bed every five minutes. Cue the panicked keyboard bashing in San Francisco as they rush to push out Codex, because god forbid anyone else gets to play with the toys while they’re still figuring out how to stop it from hallucinating entire package managers into existence.

Look, I’ve seen better organized piss-ups in breweries than this so-called “race.” OpenAI’s basically taken their existing models, slapped a “coding agent” sticker on the front, and declared they’re catching up to Claude, which has been quietly eating their lunch while they were busy faffing about with ChatGPT voice modes that sound like Scarlett Johansson having a stroke. The whole thing reeks of desperation—you can practically smell the sweat through the press releases as they try to convince everyone that autonomous agents that can’t even handle a fucking git merge are somehow going to replace actual developers.

And don’t get me started on the benchmarks. These wankers are claiming victory on synthetic tests that have about as much relation to real programming as my arse has to rocket science. “Oh look, it solved 50% more LeetCode hards!” Yeah, brilliant, because nothing says “enterprise-ready” like an AI that can reverse a binary tree but deletes your production database because you asked it to “clean up the logs.” Real fucking useful, that. Meanwhile, they’re burning through enough electricity to power a small country just to generate code that would make a first-year CS student weep.

The users, bless their little cotton socks, are eating this shit up. They’re sitting there typing “make me a website” into these black boxes and wondering why they end up with 47 dependencies on left-pad and a crypto miner tucked neatly into the build script. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are circle-jerking over who has the bigger context window while actual engineers are trying to explain to management why they can’t just “AI away” the legacy COBOL that’s been holding the banking system together since 1973 without nuking the entire goddamn economy.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/

Related anecdote: Back when I was administering a VAX cluster—and yes, I’m that fucking old—some bright spark in management decided he could replace the entire sysadmin team with a shell script he found on Usenet. Two hours later he’d managed to recursively chmod 777 the entire filesystem, route the CEO’s email to /dev/null, and somehow set the tape backup drives on fire. Literally on fire. I had to use the Halon extinguisher and everything. When I asked the tosser what the hell he was thinking, he said “but the script had AI in the filename!” Some things never change. They just cost more in AWS credits now.

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