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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Callum Jones

@viticci I think your take is missing that many software engineers view their code like you view your writing.

Art comes in more forms than prose/drawings/music. It's anytime someone is using their perspective to introduce something new into the world.

AI has no perspective.

Also, lots of code is understood in it's "raw form" - there's a huge open source movement where the code does matter.