Andy Halliday
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You mean?
I think we're priced similar to the Meta Ray Dance.
You're talking about $500 or $600?
All right, let's move on to some news.
But yeah.
You have a personal comparison between Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3, right?
Yeah.
But Mike,
I did a simple little thing with Codex 5.3 last night that it kind of flubbed.
I wasn't impressed at all.
But it's an edge case, an edge use case.
And that was I had a spreadsheet from the prior year that had expense categorization in a column.
And then I gave it the new data from the 2025 year.
a preexisting, look at the tab that has that as an example, and then apply those same expense categories to the new column that has no data in it, right?
So fill it in, but use the example as a model.
And it just did a very poor job.
And I watched as it prepared a succession of Python scripts to try to do those calculations on the XML of the spreadsheet.
And it was doing serious work that way, but the final result was useless.
I mean, it couldn't do that.
And my guess is that if I used Claude for Excel, which I just haven't installed yet, and I don't use Excel.