I have had very little luck having 2025-era AIs manage the creative aspects of coding -- design, architecture, and similar
blagie on Hacker News
In the thread “Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance”, replying to this comment
Helped: Fixing mechanical bugs and generating code without typos or shallow bugs.
Got in the way: Managing creative aspects like design, architecture, and complex model trade-offs.
… Copyright is based on where the creative aspect comes from. I have had very little luck having 2025-era AIs manage the creative aspects of coding -- design, architecture, and similar -- and that's doubly true for what appears to be the relatively simplistic model in codex (as far as I can tell, codex trades off model complexity for model time; the model does a massive amount of work for a relatively small change). However, it is much better than I am at the mechanical aspects. …