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I've been using Codex's /goal for weeks. When Claude Code recently added it too, I moved over a few tasks Codex couldn't crack. The contrast was stark enough to be worth writing down.

A friend asked whether I should take an offer as an AI transformation expert. After a three-hour conversation, I wrote down my verdict: don't skimp during the vanguard phase, don't touch IDEs, and don't let your agent become a black box. GPT-5.5 launched two weeks ago; in the remaining 10 weeks, the world will be stunned by a wave of unexpected breakthroughs.

Two weeks since GPT-5.5, codenamed SPUD, went live, I've more or less stopped opening Claude Code. What surprised me wasn't that it got a few percentage points stronger—it was that after several long-standing weaknesses were fixed all at once, the design philosophy of agents became clear for the first time.

Liking an idea or starring a repo now takes seconds. But turning an idea into something truly usable—the longest, most tedious stretch in between—hasn't been shortened by vibe coding. Some personal reflections, plus the common thread between Steve Jobs and Allen Zhang.

Karpathy himself has stopped using the term vibe coding. After an Amazon outage, the company simply added a senior sign-off gate for AI-assisted code written by junior engineers. Starting from my own daily workflow, I want to talk about four things this tool actually changes—breadth, speed, quality, and the one thing that never moved: accountability.

My social media feed is buzzing about GPT-6 being released again. Misinformation has an audience; real information is a niche market. AI is making this worse, not better—which is why I recently pushed my team back to Claude Code.

One was Claude Code failing to fix its own Chrome extension after four hours of going in circles; the other was getting soft-throttled on Xiaohongshu no matter what I posted. AI didn't turn failure into success—it just made failure run faster. And that's precisely where it's most valuable.

When Claude Code can help you install software, process data, and deploy applications, it has already transcended the category of 'programming tool.' This is a meta-ability—allowing ordinary people to truly take control of their computers with an extremely low barrier to entry.

No web deployment experience, no SEO knowledge—just a desire to write down my thoughts. The site was live in two days, and MiraclePlus reached out within a week. This is my firsthand record of using Claude Code.

A non-technical outsider's experiment with Claude Code: 300,000 lines of code in 10 days, realized it was a dead end, tore it all down. 48 hours later, end-to-end working with less than 10,000 lines. Code is a liability, not an asset.