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YesCodex · 3 Feb 2026

I’ve since invested probably 30 hours of iteration to make the site into something that is closer to what I eventually want to launch

ttul on Hacker News

30 hours of iteration

In the thread “The Codex App”

Helped: Providing marketing materials and design references to guide output.

Got in the way: Required significant manual iteration to reach launch quality.

… I then asked it to produce a first cut and it one-shotted a pretty decent bit of output. AGI is definitely a few more years away, because I’ve since invested probably 30 hours of iteration to make the site into something that is closer to what I eventually want to launch. But here’s the thing: I never intended for Codex to produce THE final website. …