A Research Preview of Codex

I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs, all for the sake of productivity gains.

I imagine many engineers are like myself in that they got into programming because they liked tinkering and hacking and implementation details, all of which are likely to be abstracted over in this new era of prompting.

I see it differently. Like a kid with legos.

We had to tinker piece by piece to build a miniature castle. Over many hours.

Now I can tinker concept by concept, and build much larger castles, much faster. Like waving a wand, seeing my thoughts come to fruition in near real time.

No vanity lost in my opinion. Possibly more to be gained.