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MixedClaude, Codex · 14 May 2026

I didn't think I'd miss writing stupid CRUD apps, but here we are

tombert on Hacker News

In the thread “AI is making me dumb”, replying to this comment

Helped: Completed high-effort projects I had previously pushed off.

Got in the way: Boring routine work became tedious waiting instead of coding.

… Those jobs can be tedious , but they aren't interesting , and now instead of even getting that, I yell at Codex to do it and I awkwardly sit and wait. I didn't think I'd miss writing stupid CRUD apps, but here we are.