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YesCodex · 26 Mar 2026

I've been working on an Ansible code base in the past few weeks. I manually put that together a few years ago and unleashed codex on it to modernize it and adapt it to a new deployment. It's been great

jillesvangurp on Hacker News

In the thread “Thoughts on slowing the fuck down”, replying to this comment

Helped: TDD, checklists, generated skills, and strict specification-level work.

Got in the way: Refusal to take shortcuts, sticking strictly to process.

… But it boils down to being a bit strict and intervening when it goes off the rails and then correcting it via skills such that it won't happen again. I've been working on an Ansible code base in the past few weeks. I manually put that together a few years ago and unleashed codex on it to modernize it and adapt it to a new deployment. It's been great. I have a lot of skills in that repository that explain how to do stuff. …