Federico Viticci 2d ago

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

Christian Scheer2d ago
Show threadSteve Troughton-Smith

@viticci I think I have an answer, too: programming languages provide the highly-enforced structure and sanity-checking that LLMs need to excel. It's like the (defunct) left brain vs right brain idea — one side for creativity, one side for logic. A dreamer, and a thinker. Together, it keeps concepts well enough in check to create some amazing things.

I think we don't (yet) have that for prose, or music. But I could see it being possible, if we invent and teach the right abstraction layers

Mar 19 at 11:32amIvory for Mac
Show threadJeff2d ago

@stroughtonsmith @viticci For me, this is a game changer. I've already got a full time job supporting a wife & a kid and I make sure to put aside time every week to make music with a good friend to keep my sanity..

So, that leaves little time for "the average person" like me to make an app, right?

Codex has allowed me to take what was once just an aloof idea into an actual plan and hopefully an app release in a few months. Could be sooner! This stuff is just that good.

Show threadJeff2d ago
@stroughtonsmith @viticci It also absolutely terrifies me because that means I have a product I want to sell to people? Now I have to market it and stuff.. It's actually been kind of like work! But in a good way! It's been eating into the time I'd use to play my guitar. And I don't seem to mind!