Steve Troughton-SmithFeb 21

Turns out Codex is just as proficient at writing for the Windows App SDK, so I jumpstarted it with the existing unfinished UWP version of Pastel, and, like before, pointed it at the existing Swift codebase to begin porting it piece by piece to Windows 11. This is by no means a one-shot, I am slowly and methodically recreating the functionality of the Mac app.

Of course, there is no native version of Codex for Windows, so I'm running the Linux version under WSL, and Visual Studio 2022 to compile

Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 21
Light Mode | Dark Mode
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 21
Watching Codex recreate in seconds things that took me months, maybe even years, to implement the way I wanted 🥲
Show threadKyle 🏳️‍🌈
@stroughtonsmith It's absolutely _crazy_ how good the tools have gotten in the last 6 (and even 3) months. Gone from "drunk intern" to "valued senior level colleague" in record time. In some ways it's freeing (I can work at thinking speed), but also terrifying – can't imagine any low taste, low agency engineers will have jobs in a couple years...
Feb 21 at 11:06pmWeb
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithFeb 21
@kyleve taste is the key word. None of this is possible without taste. But taste is a really hard thing to learn from nothing
Show threadKyle 🏳️‍🌈Feb 21
@stroughtonsmith Indeed – very strange times...
Show threadPanzerFeb 22
@kyleve @stroughtonsmith it’s so fucking fun
Show threadKyle 🏳️‍🌈Feb 22
@panzerprime @stroughtonsmith Literally actually finding myself writing "code" on the weekends for the first time in years. Stopped because it was always such a chore to do what I wanted with the endpoint being so far away, so why bother – it'd never get done.
Show threadPanzerFeb 22
@kyleve @stroughtonsmith I’m building 1-2 things a week every week just for me! I have a 15 year backlog of things I want to exist that I never had the ability to cause to exist
Show threadMark ReidFeb 22
@kyleve @stroughtonsmith This has been my experience too.
Show threadKyle HughesFeb 22
@kyleve @stroughtonsmith and that is only so long as taste can’t be trained
Show threadKyle 🏳️‍🌈Feb 22
@kyle @stroughtonsmith It definitely _can_ to a degree already (eg, working on importing all our design system content guidelines into the pre-prompt for my design system app so it can leverage that), but that's also very tactical "taste". Good for some stuff, not good at the larger philosophizing of "does this make sense in the arc and context of the product", or at least, not yet...