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YesClaude, Codex · 3 Sep 2026

I don't think I'm ever going to write code by hand again unless I'm fixing something the AI can't manage or the change is small enough

echelon on Hacker News

100x faster

In the thread “Claude outage – Resolved”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using AI for coding allows catching up on other work during outages.

Got in the way: Codex felt inferior at Rust and TypeScript.

… But during model outages, and since I'm not actively set up to use OpenAI/Codex at the moment, I'll just find something else productive to do. I don't think I'm ever going to write code by hand again unless I'm fixing something the AI can't manage or the change is small enough. Why even try when the machine is 100x faster? …