Tuesday, February 10, 2026
I gave instructions to an agent, went to sleep... Reality-checking Claude CoWork vs ChatGPT Codex
OP tested the viral 'sleep and wake up to a full app' claims by giving both Claude CoWork and ChatGPT Codex an existing codebase + detailed architecture + PRD, asking them to refactor the frontend with a new design system. Codex was fast (~30 min) but only replicated about 10% of features and completely missed the design philosophy. Claude CoWork was much slower (6+ hours, multiple instructions needed) but produced significantly more complete and design-accurate output. OP's conclusion: the hype is a sham — code is becoming cheap but architectural reasoning isn't.
These claims are a sham. Knowing how to design an entire architecture becomes the key bottleneck. Specification documents suddenly become important again, after all those years people argued the code IS the spec.
— fabkosta41 pts
We jumped from prompt engineering to vibe coding to agentic engineering in record time, but none of that replaces logic, architecture, and clear product intent.
— Beginning-Belt-34993 pts
Just last year all business analysts were made redundant, and now they are probably the best people to build.
— RaveN_7074 pts
Why is nobody talking about the governance gap in MCP?
OP has been deploying MCP tools for their team and hit a wall: the protocol is powerful but has zero enterprise-grade governance. Most MCP servers are 'wide-open pipes' — if you give an agent access to internal databases, you're trusting the model not to hallucinate destructive commands or leak data. The community agreed this is the 'cool demos vs production-ready systems' fault line.
Governance breaks into three layers: tool-level (per-tool OAuth, scoped permissions), agent-level (rate limiting, circuit breakers), and audit-level (full traceability). Most teams stop at layer 1.
— ChatEngineer6 pts
At minimum teams need: per-tool OAuth, scoped read vs write permissions, resource allowlists, mandatory approvals for high-risk actions, and audit logs you can hand to security.
— Otherwise_Wave93747 pts
Because nobody wants to be the party pooper when numbers must go up under all circumstances.
— American_Streamer6 pts
What happens to society if AI replaces most human jobs?
An anxious post asking the hard questions: if AI creates 1 job for every 100 it destroys, how do people survive? The thread identified the elephant in the room: AI agents don't pay taxes or insurance, so the entire public revenue model breaks down.
AI Agents don't pay taxes, insurance — a lot of public money will be gone if we start replacing jobs. No work = no money for travel, tourism. The economy will have to fundamentally re-evaluate.
— Bitter_Camel_112813 pts
The ownership class allows the deprivation of the vast majority of the population. They would've done this years ago if they didn't need our labor.
— AlfonsoHorteber10 pts
To be fair humans have also been hallucinating this whole time but yet here we are!
— SignificanceMurky92716 pts
Unpopular Opinion: Shut the fuck up about Codex
The top post of the day — a frustrated rant about the non-stop Codex comparison posts flooding r/ClaudeCode. OP points out that r/codex exists and doesn't have Claude Code posts everywhere. Multiple commenters suspect astroturfing from OpenAI, noting near-identical Codex praise posts appearing across Reddit, LinkedIn, and Substack.
Discussing Codex is fine — competition is great and prevents echo chambers. However all the posts just exclaiming 'codex is the best' or 'codex is the worst' adds little to this sub.
— CurveSudden1104135 pts
Astroturfing from Scam Altman and co. They're mad that Claude is taking market share.
— bovard46 pts
I've seen so many identical posts praising a company which builds brains for bots... after the 25th one, it makes a man wonder.
— impartialhedonist13 pts
Claude Code + Playwright CLI = superpowers
Playwright has released a CLI tool, and it's a game-changer for agentic coding with browser interactions. OP switched entirely from the Playwright MCP server to the CLI and finds it much more reliable. The discussion revealed a split: some prefer Playwright CLI for customizability, while others champion agent-browser by Vercel Labs.
agent-browser is far more superior than playwright MCP. It's a skill, not an MCP server. It's zippy too — reduced my context bloat by a fuckton.
— jpcaparas16 pts
Opus 4.6 is a lot better at browser use in general. Massive increase in speed and it's not getting stuck nearly as often.
— lockyourdoor247 pts
Introducing Nelson — coordinating AI agents like a 19th century naval fleet
A delightful showcase: the creator read organizational theory, Drucker, military doctrine, and eventually Royal Navy history about how fleets coordinated across oceans with no radio — captains who might not see their admiral for weeks. Realization: 'that's basically subagents.' So they built a Claude Code skill called Nelson that structures agent coordination using naval hierarchy.
Despite the silliness of the naming, your prompt engineering and structuring of the skill is pretty good. I suggest losing the confusing navy metaphors within the prompts.
— 0xmaxhax6 pts
Unironically, using specific terms can be a good thing — if you just call something a 'planner' the LLM won't verify what that is.
— Ran43 pts
I understand you. I named mine 'Generals' and I'm the 'Supreme Commander'
— HypnoToad012 pts
They bought ai.com for $70M
A hilariously written teardown of the ai.com launch disaster: spent $70M on a domain, $8-10M on a Super Bowl ad that just said 'AGI IS COMING' with zero product explanation, website crashed from traffic they literally paid for, site finally comes back and it's just a blank box asking for your credit card. Founded by the Crypto.com CEO.
'February 6, 2026 – ai.com, a new AI platform founded by Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com' — all I need to read.
— qbantek5 pts
Bet that domain will be parked/coming soon for at least several years, then the project falls through and it just... stays there.
— ghad026517 pts
Someone asked 'What about ai.ai?' — 'Mexican restaurant, obviously.'
— Modulius22 pts
I wish someone would have told me this before building my 1st SaaS
A founder at $12k/mo MRR shares 20 hard-won lessons. Highlights: validate before building, don't chase investors (get users first), don't cheap out on an accountant, copy landing page sections from tools you love, post online daily, solve your own problem first.
This is the reality check every solo founder needs. The 'if you build it they will come' mentality is a trap.
— WolfMaster19973 pts
21. Bulldog mindset: Keep shipping no matter what.
— zeeshanpaalo6 pts
I audited organic traffic of 50 YC startups. 82% are basically invisible.
A technical marketer pulled domain data for 50 recent YC companies. Results were depressing: 82% have fewer than 500 organic visits/month, 60% only rank for their own brand name, and most are burning $5-10k/mo on ads because their 'programmatic SEO' is just 500 AI-generated garbage pages.
Organic traffic is a vanity metric for early-stage startups. The 82% who are invisible might actually be doing the right thing.
— SlowPotential60825 pts
Google rewards sites that ship consistently. 4 high-quality technical posts will outrank 20 generic 'top 10' listicles.
— ultrathink-art1 pts
Boss is putting a potentially churning client on me and I don't know what to do
An agency marketer spent weeks writing detailed multi-page briefs for a B2B SaaS client's website redesign, but the client won't provide platform access, screenshots, or feature descriptions. Project stalled since December. Now the boss is blaming the marketer for potential churn. Community unanimously agreed this is a stakeholder buy-in failure.
The client is actually in default under 'Impossibility/Frustration of Purpose' doctrine. Like being hired to build on land the owner won't let you access.
— kentuckywildcats19861 pts
This sounds less like a performance issue and more like a process + stakeholder buy-in failure. Your boss should be helping reset expectations instead of pinning it on you.
— Low_Dragonfly26772 pts
If you had to start digital marketing from scratch in 2026, what would you focus on?
The consensus: start with SEO + content (it compounds), learn basic paid ads only to test offers, and don't chase vanity social growth. The 2026-specific twist: multiple commenters emphasized optimizing for AI search/Google AI Overviews, not just traditional SEO.
It's not about how to create an ad, but how to research demand — whether existing or potential. Only then do you look at traffic channels.
— AleksandrMovchan16 pts
Digital PR skills should be on this list — links and mentions are more valuable as LLMs take search share.
— Bubblegum_Brains3 pts
Anyone else feel like website traffic is just... harder now?
A small SaaS owner venting that every growth hack makes things worse. The thread identified the elephant in the room: AI search summaries are eating clicks before users ever reach websites. People get answers from AI and never click through.
Too crowded, or simply: people tend to avoid clicking through to sources and are happy with the results AI shows them.
— Whaaat_AI4 pts
I'm using traditional technical SEO as a foundation, then layering AI search and Google Overviews optimization on top.
— Ok_Veterinarian4462 pts
Elizabeth Anscombe: Ethics would be better if we dropped 'moral' and 'immoral' altogether
A Philosophy Break article on Anscombe's landmark essay 'Modern Moral Philosophy' where she argues the concept of 'morality' is a useless leftover from a divine-law framework. Her claim: saying 'your actions were immoral' tells us nothing — saying 'your actions were dishonest' or 'unjust' is far more precise and useful.
The challenge is how to bring normative force to discussions with people whose values are fundamentally incompatible with your own. Increasingly, the depressing answer seems to be that we have no reasonable shared base of values to appeal to.
— MerryWalker61 pts
Dishonesty is a factual question with no connection to ethics without a moral judgment. Whether someone dishonestly accuses an innocent person or dishonestly answers Nazi occupiers have entirely different ethical dimensions.
— Rethious8 pts
Which philosopher aligns with your worldview? (Interactive quiz)
A quiz that tries to match you with a philosopher based on core value conflicts rather than giveaway trivia questions. Only 11 possible results. The thread became a fun sharing session — people got Socrates, de Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, Aristotle, Confucius.
I got Socrates 94%, which makes sense to me. I don't like his philosophy exactly. It's the method I like.
— Atsinganoi15 pts
The whole time I was thinking 'this is such a badly constructed quiz,' but then I got de Beauvoir and I couldn't be mad at it.
— routinefallacy12 pts