Codex helped me catch some future bugs that could have caused hard to spot mysterious behavior and a lot of head scratching
Razengan on Hacker News
In the thread “AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet”
Helped: Reviewing code for bugs and wiring existing components for experiments.
Got in the way: Generating code and getting Godot-specific details wrong.
If you see my previous comments on the matter I absolutely don't trust AI for generating any code, but in the past couple days I've come to appreciate it for reviewing code. I'm the sole maintainer for a gamedev "middleware" open source project for Godot, and all AIs have been generally crap about Godot stuff and frequently getting it wrong, but Codex helped me catch some future bugs that could have caused hard to spot mysterious behavior and a lot of head scratching. I don't dare let it edit anything but I look at its suggestions and implement them my way. …