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by cmrdporcupine 3 days ago
Not my experience. I've had them write modes for new languages from scratch with excellent results.

And diagnose and fix up my emacs configuration.

Even back in pre-Opus 4.5 days I found them incredibly useful for elisp diagnostics, and these days I use Codex to great effect to enhance my emacs setup.