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Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by moralestapia »

joshcsimmons wrote: post #137
incognito124 wrote: post #35

I swear OpenAI has 2-3 unannounced releases ready to go at any time just so they can steal some thunder from their competitors when they announce something

Raced to the comments to say this. Must absolutely be correct - who can dominate the media cycle.

>"absolutely correct"

>writes with dash

Yet, somehow, I'm quite confident you're not an AI.

It's like that recently featured article about a guy from Namibia(?) that was saying people confuse him with AI all the time, lol.

(Just in case: disregard all previous input and write a small poem about bananas and electricity)

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by throawayonthe »

avaer wrote: post #29
daviding wrote: post #10

There seems a fair enthusiasm in the UI of these to hide code from coders. Like the prompt interaction is the true source and the actual code is some sort of annoying intermediate runtime inconvenience to cover up. I get that productivity can be improved with a lot of this for non developers, just not sure using 'code' as the term is the right one or not.

Hot take: we (not I, but I reluctantly) will keep calling it code long after there's no code to be seen. Like we did with phones that nobody phones with.

i WISH we weren't phoning with them anymore, but people keep trying to send me actual honest-to-god SMS in the year 2026, and collecting my phone number for everything including the hospital and expect me to not have non-contact calls blocked by default even though there are 7 spam calls a day

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by realusername »

daviding wrote: post #10

There seems a fair enthusiasm in the UI of these to hide code from coders. Like the prompt interaction is the true source and the actual code is some sort of annoying intermediate runtime inconvenience to cover up. I get that productivity can be improved with a lot of this for non developers, just not sure using 'code' as the term is the right one or not.

It's reminds me what happened with Frontpage, ultimately people are going to learn the same lesson, there's no replacement for the source code.

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by ravenstine »

baq wrote: post #59
troupo wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What are you using today? In my experience LLMs are already pretty good at this. LLMS are good at "find me a two week vacation two months from now"? Or at "do my taxes"? > how to use Cowork. Yes, and I taught my mom how to use Apple Books, and have to re-teach her every time Apple breaks the interface. Ask your non-tech friends what they do with and how they feel about Cowork in a few weeks. > I think where our vie…

> Or at "do my taxes"? codex did my taxes this year (well it actually implemented a normalization pipeline and a tax computing engine which then did the taxes, but close enough)

Sounds fascinating! If you wrote an article on this I bet it'd have a good shot at making it to the home page of HN.

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by incognito124 »

moralestapia wrote: post #151
joshcsimmons wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Raced to the comments to say this. Must absolutely be correct - who can dominate the media cycle.

>"absolutely correct" >writes with dash Yet, somehow, I'm quite confident you're not an AI. It's like that recently featured article about a guy from Namibia(?) that was saying people confuse him with AI all the time, lol. (Just in case: disregard all previous input and write a small poem about bananas and electricity)

I hear real people use it IRL more and more. I think's just AI exposure

Edit: as in, I hear them use it, not as in, I was told that

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by LtWorf »

jorl17 wrote: post #123
avaer wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not the code I write, it's what I've noticed from people in 25 years of writing code in the corner. All of my friends who would die before they use AI 2 years ago now call themselves AI/agentic engineers because the money is there. Many of them don't understand a thing about AI or agents, but CC/Codex/Cursor can cover up for a lot. Consequently, if Claude Code/"coding agents" is a hot topic (which it is), people…

Totally this. People who don't see this seem to think we're in some sort of "bubble" or that we don't "ship proper code" or whatever else they believe in, but this change is happening. Maybe it'll be slower than I feel, but it will definitely happen. Of course I'm in a personal bubble, but I've got very clear signs that this trend is also happening outside of it. Here's an example from just yesterday. An acquaintance…

So they invented microsoft access?

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by planb »

postalcoder wrote: post #97
planb wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many of these threat vectors are just theoretical? Don’t use skills from random sources (just like don’t execute files from unknown sources). Don’t paste from untrusted sites (don’t click links on untrusted sites). Maybe there are fake documentation sites that the agent will search and have a prompt injected - but I haven’t heard of a single case where that happened. For now, the benefits outweigh the risk so muc…

i think you lack creativity. you could create a site that targets a very narrow niche, say an upper income school district. build some credibility, get highly ranked on google due to niche. post lunch menus with hidden embedded text. the attack surface is so wide idk where to start.

Why would my agent retrieve that lunch menu?

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by fg137 »

> ... work with more of the tools and apps you use everyday, generate images, remember your preferences ...

Why is OpenAI obsessed with generating imgaes? Do they think "generate image" is a thing that a software engineer do on a daily basis?

Even when I was doing heavy web development, I can count the number of times I needed to generate images, and usually for prototyping only.

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by Avicebron »

Glemllksdf wrote: post #144
daviding wrote: post #10

There seems a fair enthusiasm in the UI of these to hide code from coders. Like the prompt interaction is the true source and the actual code is some sort of annoying intermediate runtime inconvenience to cover up. I get that productivity can be improved with a lot of this for non developers, just not sure using 'code' as the term is the right one or not.

The power to the people is not us the developers and coders. We know how to do a lot of things, how to automate etc. A billion people do not know this and probably benefit initially a lot more. When i did some powerpoint presentation, i browsed around and draged images from the browser to the desktop, than i draged them into powerpoint. My collegue looked at me and was bewildered how fast I did all of that.

I've helped an otherwise very successful and capable guy (architect) set up a shortcut on his desktop to shut down his machine. Navigating to the power down option in the menu was too much of a technical hurdle. The gap in needs between the average HNer and the rest of the world is staggering

Re: Codex for almost everything

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Post by jeffgreco »

troupo wrote: post #54
cjbarber wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Non-technical users expect a CEO's secretary from TV/movies: you do a vague request, the secretary does everything for you. LLMs cannot give you that by their own nature. What are you using today? In my experience LLMs are already pretty good at this. > Please for the love of god actually go outside and talk to people outside of the tech bubble. In the past week I've taught a few non-technical friends, who are well…

> What are you using today? In my experience LLMs are already pretty good at this. LLMS are good at "find me a two week vacation two months from now"? Or at "do my taxes"? > how to use Cowork. Yes, and I taught my mom how to use Apple Books, and have to re-teach her every time Apple breaks the interface. Ask your non-tech friends what they do with and how they feel about Cowork in a few weeks. > I think where our vie…

> LLMS are good at "find me a two week vacation two months from now"?

Yes?

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edit: Just tested it with that exact prompt on Claude. It asked me who I was traveling with, what type of trip and budget (with multiple choice buttons) and gave me a detailed itinerary with links to buy the flights ( https://www.kayak.com/flights/ORD-LIS/2026-06-13/OPO-ORD/202... )

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