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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 inte

by gip 8mo ago

> 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.

sarchertech 8mo ago
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)
- loveparade 8mo ago
  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!
  - redanddead 8mo ago
    it is giving a very agentic vibe
  - gip 8mo ago
    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 8mo ago
  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?
- gip 8mo ago
  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 8mo ago
    That's exactly what a bot would say
  - sarchertech 8mo ago
    > 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”).”
dmos62 8mo ago
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 8mo ago
  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 8mo ago
    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 8mo ago
> ...and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away. It's always the CTO types who get most enthusiastic.

by gip 8mo ago

sarchertech 8mo ago

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)

loveparade 8mo ago
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!
- redanddead 8mo ago
  it is giving a very agentic vibe
- gip 8mo ago
  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 8mo ago
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?
gip 8mo ago
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 8mo ago
  That's exactly what a bot would say
- sarchertech 8mo ago
  > 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”).”

dmos62 8mo ago

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 8mo ago
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 8mo ago
  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 8mo ago

> ...and director of engineering for 10 years. I'm blown away. It's always the CTO types who get most enthusiastic.