Steve Troughton-SmithI really don't know what development on my own apps looks like, going forward. It's like going back to being Clark Kent when you're moonlighting as Superman. I can't imagine working on my existing apps like I have been with my Codex-built projects, and I'm not sure how to bridge the two ways of working. It's beginning to become difficult to imagine writing code by hand again, and it's only been a month 😐
I think part of the problem is being able to use LLMs with confidence in a greenfield codebase, vs being afraid to break anything in an established app. I am far less likely to ask it to do big things in my apps, and I'm far more likely to back out any changes it does make for fear of the repercussions. There are architectural decisions in my apps that I never would have made had I access to something like Codex at the time, and now I've made them they're too fragile and require too much to fix
Work Less@stroughtonsmith Inspired by you, "i" (Claude) rewrote an entire community site built in (very poor) Classic ASP, VBscript, using a mix of SQL and Access databases... to C# and blazor, cleaned up the database schema and consolidated it on SQL, then containerized it under linux docker images, over the course of two weeks. Shipping to production almost daily as i went.
I am now able to retire a Windows VM i've been running for years, that replaced shared hosting i paid for, for years. The users never even noticed a difference, it still has 1998-style HTML views to maintain the vibes. Literally 25 years of "I need to rewrite this," procrastination solved in two weeks.
Just do it.