Oliver Earl
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OpenAI simply doesn’t get it
I’m often asked whether I prefer Claude or Codex, and honestly, I’ve never really shown any preference towards either. Both seem to have reasonably good levels of intelligence, so I’ll go with whatever is more affordable. For me, that has historically been Codex with their Pro plan. I work a lot with Codex, whether I…
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AI has its Robin Hood moment?
For far too long, AI has been used by big tech to the detriment of its users. At best, that means shoehorning in features that nobody asked for and slowing down the experience, but at worst, using our data to train yet more models. Adobe says they won’t, but you’ll forgive me for not believing…
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Switching off with purpose
Work hard, study well, and eat and sleep plenty! That is the Turtle Hermit way! An apt quote from our beloved Master Roshi. If Dragon Ball has taught me anything, besides that screaming your lungs out during strenuous work does in fact make you stronger, it’s that rest is as important to one’s success as…
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Keep your issues to yourself
NB: This is literally just my 2¢. If you don’t agree, that’s okay. Recently, Taylor Otwell, the lead maintainer behind the Laravel framework announced that their open source libraries would be closing their GitHub issues on almost all of their repositories. (Though seemingly excluding the main framework, for now) I can’t put into words how…
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The beginning of this year’s winter arc
🎶 Wake up, wake up, it’s the first of the month 🎶 September is probably the most important month in my life; it’s the month that has encompassed most of my biggest trials, changes and ‘start-agains’, but this probably shouldn’t be surprising given how my life, for the longest period of time, revolved almost entirely…
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GitHub can stack pull requests
I’m not the biggest fan of agentic development as a concept, but where it shines is breaking up some work that you did into logical, smaller pull requests that are easier to review, and picking up any little mistakes you might’ve made along the way. Maybe add some extra tests. In any case, whilst hard…