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Andy Halliday

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8318 total appearances

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The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

You mean?

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

I think we're priced similar to the Meta Ray Dance.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

You're talking about $500 or $600?

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

All right, let's move on to some news.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

But yeah.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

You have a personal comparison between Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3, right?

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

Yeah.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

But Mike,

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

I did a simple little thing with Codex 5.3 last night that it kind of flubbed.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

I wasn't impressed at all.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

But it's an edge case, an edge use case.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

And that was I had a spreadsheet from the prior year that had expense categorization in a column.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

And then I gave it the new data from the 2025 year.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

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?

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

So fill it in, but use the example as a model.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

And it just did a very poor job.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

And I watched as it prepared a succession of Python scripts to try to do those calculations on the XML of the spreadsheet.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

And it was doing serious work that way, but the final result was useless.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

I mean, it couldn't do that.

The Daily AI Show
Super Bowl AI Ads and the Signal Beneath the Noise

And my guess is that if I used Claude for Excel, which I just haven't installed yet, and I don't use Excel.