“every single direction change I suggest, codex is all: "that's a great idea, and we should totally go that [very different] direction", try as I might to get it to act like more of a peer.“
That’s not the model, that’s a personality setting you can change in the codex config file.
Set it to Pragmatic, and ask it (not command it) about your new direction in planning mode.
It will tell you if your idea is not good for the given project.
It’s an excellent peer.
At the same time, everything you ever posted online has already been scraped by hundreds (maybe thousands) of entities and distributed/sold to countless other entities. The only difference is that OP shared his project here.
This is completely offtopic, but I would bet it was a government-funded museum.
A reasonable institution would have worked with you to find an acceptable compromise, something much easier to implement with a small sacrifice of aesthetics.
Anyway, great work, and thank you for taking the time to share it!
"mostly profit someone else who did nothing but write you a check"
There is quite a bit of work involved in reaching the point where you write a check for a Series A round. Also, the better VCs spend significant time with their portfolio companies.
Strange that I had to scroll down this far for this answer. Creating a normal, non-admin user for them will greatly limit the damage they can do as they won't be able to make system-wide changes. I also disabled installing extensions in Edge.
What do you mean exactly here What do you think LastPass could have done to prevent this specific issue?