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Re:OpenAI Codex Review by ninininino on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:41PM (#44043987)
I guess maybe the analogy is we as software devs are all horses.

With Codex and Claude Code, these model agents are cars.

Some of horses will become drivers of cars and some of us will no longer be needed to pull wagons and will be out of a job.

Is that the proper framing?

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Re:OpenAI Codex Review by allturtles on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @01:49PM (#44044059)
> Some of horses will become drivers of cars

An amusing image, but your analogy lost me here.

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Re:OpenAI Codex Review by jimbokun on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:46PM (#44044602)
Guessing that's sarcasm.
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Re:OpenAI Codex Review by ninininino on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:54PM (#44044680)
It's pretty intentional.

I think CEOs or PMs or Founders are like horse jockeys. Devs are like horses. (Some of them are both the jockey and the horse).

AI is a car. CEO or PM or Founder might smoothly swap out the horse for a car and continue on with little change.

For the horse to become a driver of a car is a more difficult challenge, but not impossible. It needs to evolve.

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