switched from Claude Code to Codex CLI today and am experiencing this in real time. I can’t articulate exactly why…it’s just better
Less sycophantic? Feels more comprehensive? 5.5 seems to just miss fewer things
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e.g. don't spend cycles on frontend code, spend time getting the agent connected to a design system, following best practices, and self-verifying its own code changes.
the work is now building and operating the machine that ships and maintains code, not the code itself
the job of software engineer is so clearly no longer about directly managing code, but managing the systems and rails for AI tools to ship the best possible codel, given the domain and its constraints
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I think there are interesting use cases for sandboxes that have nothing to do with AI code execution.
If you can isolate tenants and pin them to their own compute, that’s a pretty powerful primitive for multi-tenant software generally.
CI/CD systems, per-tenant queries with variable compute/memory, third-party plugin systems, user-defined logic, etc.
Cool to see AI infra make infra better for non-AI products too.
@thdxr I now ship stuff that pre-AI would've been sidelined for more important features and never made it out of the backlog, but now are a no brainer to implement. The long tail of small features and easter eggs: general polish that ends up raising the resulting product quality
7/ Instead of a human prompting specific features and fixes to move a codebase forward, do we end up in an even more declarative/spec-driven world, where human changes are text updates to a CLAUDE.md spec and agents continuously work to reconcile to a final state?
1/ If history is any guide, I think the end state of agentic coding is something far more declarative than imperative (relative to where we are today). We’ve headed far in that direction, but there’s probably more to go…