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YesCodex · 26 Apr 2026

it would take me a month to do what I can do in a week and I'd be working myself to the bone

piloto_ciego on Hacker News

take a month to do what I can do in a week

In the thread “Do I belong in tech anymore?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Churning out boilerplate code that solves real engineering problems.

Got in the way: Codex is dumb and does not understand the use case at all.

… The truth is, I could write all this code myself. It's mostly Python, and JS, but it would take me a month to do what I can do in a week and I'd be working myself to the bone. Instead, this is more like an extremely fun part-time job that's growing in scope and pay but not growing in time required of me. …