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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.

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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.

[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)

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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!

[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!