Issue Has Been Resolved
robss2020.github.ioI couldn't make head or tail of their comment, submission title, or headline, so I looked for myself. OP is making a custom VNC client and server with Codex and is timing how long it takes.
OP, please rewrite your verbiage to clearly state what you're doing and why we should care.
Don't treat this thread as a place where we should already have all the context for what you've been working on. We don't!
OP, you left the timer running even though you say it's resolved. Write up something yourself. Do NOT use AI to generate your summary.
I think a quick glance at the poster's submission history might suggest they're not experiencing the same reality as you and I.
>might suggest they're not experiencing the same reality as you and I.
it depends. When you give codex a simple task does it complete it or waste a week of your time?
The project is now complete and working. Here is proof:
https://youtube.com/shorts/D5BKi--LEfk
If it breaks again for any reason, I will file a congressional report about it.
This issue has now been resolved and the client and server software work according to my requests and specifications.
If it is externally broken after the fact the congressional report is going out without any further warnings.
What in the world do you mean by "congressional report"?!
I mean that if this stops working for any reason then congress will hear about it. There is no excuse to waste weeks of my time and break my software.
I'm pleading with you one last time.
Can you explain yourself in a way that someone who hasn't been following along can understand? I realize you aren't talking about the United States Congress; but that means what you're saying is actually meaningless to me. I may as well threaten to report you to the Omniversal Administrator.
Can you please address me as though I am a stranger on the internet who doesn't know what any of your weird posting means, and **give me the missing context?**
I'd rather not. Sometimes the only way to get basic tools unbroken is to make a grand public spectacle about it until it's solved. This specific issue has been solved.
That is not what Hacker News or common spaces are for. You are polluting a public space with antisocial behavior.
okay, I'll give you the context you asked for:
- Claude wasted 1 week of my time and over 2 billion tokens delivering this: https://ibb.co/7JjMxTDZ - you can note that that version included a 43 ms LAN ping time (target is 5 ms). I had to send 252 emails on the subject. Over 20,000 words. Nothing about the simple requirements changed. It remained a simple and easy project. What was delivered was not fit for any purpose or usable for anything.
- Codex likewise failed to complete the task for over 2 days.
- Threatening a congressional report about it resulted in an 80% fix within 1 hour and 45 seconds. You can see this in the linked screenshot archive between timestamps 2026-08-11 20:34:51 CEST · ELAPSED: 002:00:20:39 when I threatened it with a congressional report and 2026-08-11 21:35:35 CEST · ELAPSED: 002:01:21:23 when I told it that it had started to improve. I documented the improvement here: https://youtube.com/shorts/sL0VSKHcghQ you can see that it is was now dropping only 80% of the frames.
- By the 3 hour deadline the code was working. This is now a fully working and tested version. Everything works. Screen, keyboard, mouse: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D5BKi--LEfk
I guess you could say that it's just a coincidence that after delivering nothing for 2 days, when I set a congressional report deadline it got it done.
I posted here to show that the issue is now resolved, but that if they then show up and break my fully working client and server software I'll file the congressional report about it.
Let me know if you have any questions. I see in your profile that you write: "modulo catastrophic failures of autocorrect."
If your autocorrect gets too bad, you, too, can threaten to file a congressional report about it and it will be fixed within minutes. You do have to be credible in your follow-through.
You can add whatever threats you like to your LLM prompts without also posting confusing, out-of-context threads on Hacker News. Threatening models with punishment-- even nonsensical punishment-- has been shown to improve performance.
> If your autocorrect gets too bad, you, too, can threaten to file a congressional report about it and it will be fixed within minutes.
No, making up pretend governmental functions will not improve my phone's autocorrect. My phone's autocorrect is not based on generative pretrained transformers.
you're right I was just having a schizoid episode, took my medicines and everything started working. thanks for the tip.
as I've mentioned, this issue is resolved.