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YesCodex · 7 Jan 2026

it's actually now reaching a tipping point that's drastically changing how I work

ndriscoll on Hacker News

In the thread “We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole”, replying to this comment

Helped: Autonomously grepping codebase to get context for changes and questions.

… within the last couple months), and will autonomously decide to grep for things in your codebase to get context on changes you've asked for or questions you've asked. I've been pretty open to my manager about calling my upper management delusional with this stuff until very recently (in the sense that 6 months ago everything I tried was still a toy), but it's actually now reaching a tipping point that's drastically changing how I work.