Mastodawn

Some thoughts on @stroughtonsmith's month with Codex, what's happening to software development, and the blurry lines between human art forms and AI:

https://www.macstories.net/linked/a-developers-month-with-openais-codex/

A Developer’s Month with OpenAI’s Codex

An eye-opening story from Steve Troughton-Smith, who tested Codex for a month and ended up rewriting a bunch of his apps and shipping versions for Windows and Android: I spent one month battle-testing Codex 5.3, the latest model from OpenAI, since I was already paying for the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan and already had access

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Sam Doran

@viticci For me, I love the process of writing code to make a computer do a thing. Taking that away and making me a robot manager is devastating. I use LLMs. They're handy. They are very helpful. But I don't want to be a manager. I want to be an engineer, a doer.

As much as you don't want an LLM to write your (wonderful) prose or make music, I don't want a bot writing my code. That's stealing a huge source of joy and satisfaction from me.

The tension arises from the two types of developers: those for whom code is a means to an end and those for whom code is an end in itself.