Codex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app. And it continues the somewhat annoying AI pers

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Ethan Mollick
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2026-05-15
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Codex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app. And it continues the somewhat annoying AI perspective that non-coders are just not as competent and need stuff hidden from them, as opposed to requiring a different form of complexity.

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Codex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app. And it continues the somewhat annoying AI perspective that non-coders are just not as competent and need stuff hidden from them, as opposed to requiring a different form of complexity.

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