JodieBenitez

I never review anything writtend by codex in my pet projects. It works or it doesn't and then I prompt again. I can see how it's easy to multiply agents in this case.

Now when using it for my job... that's a totally different story: I review all the changes, so a single chat session with an agent can lead to a whole day of review. And it's great, sometimes the agent uses patterns and functions I don't know, so I learn a lot.

> Absolutely not, not quite there not even close in my experience.

Well... I don't know what you expect but so far I'd like all my colleagues to write code at the level of what I get from codex.

Well, I'd still want something I can read...

Asking Clodex to build me a hello world web backend in Rust, Go, Python: Python is read with great ease. Go is fine too, a bit verbose but still ok. Rust hurts my eyes.

I'd settle with Go for this use case.

Arguably, we've focused way too much on new frameworks, languages and architectures for a while.

I just never felt the need for it. I'm not saying it's bad (I really don't know), it's just one of these things that solve problems I don't have.

I wouldn't use Docker in production.

> Basically, I am prepared to accept that there is a friction that LLMs lubricate away, but what is the source of the friction, and why am I (and a bunch of other colleagues) not feeling that friction daily in our practice?

You must be extremely talented and fast if LLMs make no difference for you.

For people like me though, it's another story: I've been doing this professionally for 25 years and of course, like many, I have been writing custom software for my own use all this time, on personal time. But with LLMs I get better results, faster and with very little effort. And that is the difference between another item in my list of unfinished software that consumed too much of my weekends and a cool utility/toy/useful thing I got after a few fun and interesting chat sessions.

> I find it hard to believe that there is a demographic of people that were yearning to write code, but simply could not because they lacked LLMs.

We didn't lack LLMs, we lacked time and energy.

> we abstract literally every language in common use today for the sake of DX

The fact that the Javascript ecosystem is not any different than the others is a huge missed opportunity.

> I've always struggled to enjoy anything that doesn't involve other people in some way

Well... play in band/orchestra ? You get to meet people, interact with them, build with them, etc.

I've been making music solo using various machines and computers all my life and I love it, but it's probably not for everyone. Yes, you're alone. Yes, (almost) nobody cares, so if you can't enjoy the process there is no point really.

() from time to time someone will show some interest but let's face it: there's just too much good music released everyday, competing with other distractions for the attention of the people.

For people like me, AI doesn't change much, it's another tool. We've been abusing technology in music for decades.

Ditched it for this very reason... it used to be fine before. I use Codex CLI now, it doesn't drain the battery. I prefer the desktop app but the CLI is ok.

> Django/HTMX seem quite 'old' technologies to me for a new project made in 2026.

It's simple, it works, it's efficient, safe, and there are tons of online resources for it. Excellent choice, even more so when using a coding agent.

Read the title and immediately thought "what a weird way to solve the performance loss with kernel 7..." The mind tricking itself :)

> Wordpress is the reliable dude who looks boringly normal, but on the other hand never gets you into trouble.

Sorry, but... what ? I could literaly start a business called "Wordpress Rescue Team" and make a living with this if I wanted to get my hands this dirty. The number of times I had to clean the mistakes users do when given an admin panel...

> people talk as if caching isn't a thing

Maybe you'd be surprised by how little some "engineers" know about http cache headers.

> Please, could the bootlickers of the European Union stop downvoting every single criticism of it?

Hey, let's call this "forum control" :)

"for sure"

> Gatekeeper

"curl -LsSf https://acme.tld/install.sh | sh" and "xattr -c" ?

Far from ideal and safe but it's still a very common pattern.

Such a great website ! Congrats.

Just tried this yesterday... great experience indeed. Go has archaisms and can be verbose but it's still very much readable and codex catches errors easily.

Performance aside, uv is more standards compliant than Poetry about the pyproject.toml.

But yes, in terms of user interface they are pretty similar. UV performance really does make the difference.

> You ask a machine to write your code and you still care about being easy to read?

I just happen to read what the machine writes, which is a way to both learn and inspect. So yes, I care about the code being relatively (and I stress relatively) easy to read. Go is ok there.

Pretty much my thoughts the other day... now that Codex does the writing, maybe I can finally switch to Go for the web backend stuff without being annoyed by some of its archaisms and gain significant execution performance, while still having a relatively easy to read language.

I see... so now "slop" is not only bad AI code but just any AI code ? And apparently it's ok to insult anyone ("Mindbogglingly stupid as fuck people") that use AI to code. Interesting behaviour.

I don't know about the others but why chardet ? It seems like they did achieve great results with this one.

Yes, even GUIs benefit from having good keyboard navigation.

I like TUIs keyboard-centric. Mouse can be a plus, but it should never be necessary.

Not an accurate 303 emulation but definitely a good acid line :)

I have some hobby sites I host on a raspberry pi and currently I use make mainly because it's so "easy" to just ssh into the machine and run something like "pip install thing.whl && sudo systemctl restart thing" and I can have whatever services + reverse proxy running.

I don't get it either. Worse: it even makes developer lazy as they don't put the effort to ensure their development is portable.

A decade of seeing my colleagues machines crumble under the weight of containers.

> It is also something developers seem to enjoy using

Count me out.