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I've been 5x more productive using codex-cli for weeks
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5x more productive
In the thread “Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Converting unusual source code and SVGs to custom JSON
Genuinely interesting how divergent people's experiences of working with these models is. I've been 5x more productive using codex-cli for weeks. I have no trouble getting it to convert a combination of unusually-structured source code and internal SVGs of execution traces to a custom internal JSON graph format - very clearly out-of-domain tasks compared to their training data. …