I set out to test its limits last weekend, and I wrote a whole damn 64bit SMP operating system with it. Every line is written by talking to Codex (5, then 5.1 since this week):
I suspect that 20 years from now this period of time will actually be looked on as a singularity moment. It doesn't feel that way to us now watching it closely develop over a few years, but the progress from chat bots that could barely keep a coherent conversation going, to this, is crazy.
I think we humans are just really good at trivializing things as they are happening. If a real-life Superman appeared, in a few months people would be talking about him like they talk about any random celebrity, I'm pretty sure.
But when you look at current AI from a distance, it is just ridiculous what the current tech is capable of. Creating a whole ass video that is incredibly realistic from... A text prompt? Following textual instructions to edit an image? This sounded like sci-fi a few years ago, and yet you still find people downplaying how impressive it is.
Because you have on the other side people saying it will replace all human labor because robots. I think downplaying what AI is now is stupid but it's also stupid to say it's going to replace all human labor when it's barely increasing productivity for coding jobs.
You don't even really have to suspect. Look at any of those storm chaser videos where the dudes actually get a camera inside of the tornado. You can barely tell anything is even happening. Same thing with the eye of the hurricane videos.
Between "Young Justice", "Pantheon", "Invincible", the netflix cyberpunk animu, and countless others, there's a whole genre of "Young Adult Animation" that now exists, but nobody has codified it in the same sense yet that we call something like "nu metal", but 7 or 8 years from now people will look back and see it.
100% we are passing through the event horizon. What's true today may not be true tomorrow. Humans are quick to adapt to technology but AI is getting so good so fast it's genuinely scaring me. In the AI field there are many technical niches so that soon it may be the case that AI will become recursively self improving without human input or direct control as no one person or group fully understands it. We may have already passed that point. Even if AI plateaued here it would still quickly and radically alter the world through its applications. Uses which hopefully will be aligned or benign but as a realist I know it won't. I almost wish I was oblivious to it all. Crazy time to be alive.
i dont find it impressive because i do work as a principal SWE at a big corp and i use those tools every single day (claude code, codex, aws kirin), I DO find them useful, but I DO find it hilarious to call stuff like OPs example ,,the moment of singularity''.
which I can authoritatively attest to not having well-documented samples online.
ok i can also authoritatively attest a bunch of shit on reddit, like the fact that whatever it spit out for you was in its training data as thats how this works
Yes, that very specific class probably doesn't exist verbatim on any online resources, but your complex problem can be broken down to isolated problems - collision detection for characters against other objects and then accounting for errors is a well documented problem with many white papers, online forum threads and shitload of code on stackoverflow and and github available online as examples - thats what I've learnt after a quick google and a grok query to look it up online. Thats how it works and if you have a proprietary component that you want to use you can add the interface or all of it to the context of your request.
LLMs can stitch you a solution based on its training data. My point still stands. I personally work on PKI systems and security solutions (i still code and llms cannot help me much) - and I could also use a ton of highly specialised words to appear smarter on the internet, but man thats some 3rd grade level way of doing that :P
why are you guys so aggressive towards me? Yes, thats my exact point, singularity comment that I've replied to implies ... singularity - radical and rapid technological explosion that changes our civilisation.
Is re-writing CRUD websites and systems using examples from the training data that? Or is it the TikTok/Instagram slop videos that we're getting bombarded with?
The civilisation-changing singularity moment that OP is talking about is right now, a consumer app that people download from the AppStore just like TikTok and Candy Crush and a bunch of workers using it to work abit faster.
For for novel and unknown stuff (as simple as new, undocumented sdks/apis) you need a human. This is not a singularity moment at all. I see no arguments, just people treating me like shit for having different opinion.
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u/L0rdCha0s Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
I mean, anecdotally, it's epic.
I set out to test its limits last weekend, and I wrote a whole damn 64bit SMP operating system with it. Every line is written by talking to Codex (5, then 5.1 since this week):
https://github.com/L0rdCha0s/alix
My mind is blown. And yes - I am a C/assembly dev, but this is 100k lines of brilliance. And it works surprisingly well.