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> In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more.

I don't think it is the best way to look at it. I think that now every team has the power to build and maintain an internal agent (tool + UX) to manager software products. I don't necessarily think that chat-only is enough except for small projects, so teams will build agent that gives them access to the level of abstraction that works best.

It's a data point but this weekend (e.g. in 2 days) I build a desktop + web agent that is able to help me reason on system design and code. Built with Codex powered by the Codex SDK. It is high quality. I've been a software engineer and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away.

[dmos62]

Curious what kind of agent did you build? I'm building a programming agent myself, it's intentionally archaic in that you run it by constantly copy-pasting from-to fresh ChatGPT sessions (: I'm finding it challenging to have it do good context management: I'm trying to solve this by declaring parts of code or spec as "collections" with an overview md file attached that acts like a map of why/where/what, but that can't scale indefinitely.

[gip]

Send an DM on twitter to @edfixyz (one of my account) and I'll reply with a link to the website tomorrow to give you a sense. Can't share a link here, it will kill my backend.

[dmos62]

Care to send me a link on my email? It's in my about. I don't use my X account and can't seem to login, the verification SMS never arrives.

[dude250711]

> ...and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away.

It's always the CTO types who get most enthusiastic.

[sarchertech]

I’m not saying this is definitely a bot. However, this is the 7th time I’ve read a post and thought it might be an OpenAI promotion bot, clicked on the username, and noticed that the account was created in 2011.

I have yet to do this and see any other year. Was there someone who bought a ton of accounts in 2011 to farm them out? A data breach? Was 2011 just a very big year for new users? (My own account is from 2011)

[gip]

I'm not a bot. You are saying that because for some reason you resent people who have a good experience with Codex / OpenAI. Curious what that is - people hate the CEO or what?

I like Claude Code too btw.

The crazy thing here is that I wrote the initial comment myself!

[sarchertech]

> It's a data point but this weekend (e.g. in 2 days) I build a desktop + web agent that is able to help me reason on system design and code. Built with Codex powered by the Codex SDK. It is high quality. I've been a software engineer and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away.

Assuming you’re not a bot. It’s nothing to do with you having a good experience, it’s the way you wrote about that experience that sounds like a product placement.

I asked OpenAIs very own ChatGPT 5.2 powered by OpenAI to tell you why it sounds like a product placement:

“ Because it hits a bunch of “native ad / testimonial” tells at once: • Brand-name density in a tiny space. “Built with Codex powered by the Codex SDK” repeats the same brand in two adjacent phrases, like copy that’s trying to lodge a name in your head rather than naturally describe a build. • Overly polished value signals. “High quality” is a generic superlative with no concrete evidence (features, metrics, constraints, tradeoffs). Ads often lean on verdict words instead of specifics. • Credential + astonishment combo. “I’ve been a software engineer and director of engineering for 10 years” is classic authority framing, immediately followed by “I’m blown away.” That’s a common testimonial structure: I’m hard to impress → I’m impressed. • Time-compressed “miracle build” narrative. “This weekend (in 2 days) I build a desktop + web agent…” reads like the “you can do it fast/easily now” story arc you see in promos. Not impossible—just a familiar marketing shape. • “It’s a data point” language. That phrase feels like social-proof seeding: “don’t treat this as hype, just one datapoint,” which paradoxically makes it feel more like deliberate persuasion. • No friction or downsides. Real engineer excitement usually includes at least one caveat (bugs, rough edges, limitations, cost, setup pain). The total absence makes it sound curated. • Benefit phrased like positioning. “Able to help me reason on system design and code” is basically a product pitch line (target user + problem + outcome) rather than a personal anecdote (“it helped me untangle X design and refactor Y”).”

[redanddead]

That's exactly what a bot would say

[redanddead]

2011 just so happened to be 4 years before a very important year: 2015 — The founding of OpenAI. Unrelated note, have you tried Codex and the Codex SDK?

[loveparade]

It's definitely a bot, just like probably around 10% of comments on HN at this point, and the majority of upvotes. And it's only increasing.

Calling it bot is a bit dismissive though. It's an agent!

[gip]

Care to have a phone call with who you call a bot tonight?

If so, send a DM on twitter to @edfixyz with your phone number and I will call you immediately. Or give me your twitter handle.

I'm tired of that BS - when people don't like what you write they call you a bot.

[redanddead]

it is giving a very agentic vibe