“I'm of the current opinion that the harnesses built for the models are superior to the agnostic harnesses that allow multiple models. I went back to Pi and I doubled my cost and did not increase my productivity at all. However, using Codex CLI, specifically with Astra, is superior to Pi using Astra.”

…But Shopify did do it. And I can't say exactly what, but Shopify did it again this past seven days, took a humongous piece of corporate paid enterprise software and said, not using you anymore. We built it ourselves. And that would be about the fourth time I've seen him do that in the past year.

…you want, use the best frontier models. Like, you're still kind of a startup-y vibe, like you can move fast. Like, we have a lot more red tape at IBM and stuff that's been happening. But we have cool tools back now. Like, I can use Astra through Copilot with Open Code. So that's what I'll be doing.

It's like how Apple builds hardware and software. It's like that's how they work well. They know the strengths

and weaknesses of their models. And so they'll play into those. Yeah.

Yeah. So it's always going to work better, even if it's like, they might even be explicitly just telling it, like, hey, if this is coming from our stuff, just work better. Like that could be built into like the core directive of like how they work. And we'll never know. So