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The dopamine is flowing with OpenAI Codex today. I've got Claude and Codex reviewing each other's work systematically and while progress seems slower than the heady days of any early project, it feels like every move is way more considered and the output is improving code quality. A lot of my current work is developing using frontier models to build applications and harnesses using self hosted LLMs and RAG. My next step is going to be to bring as much of the coding "in house" as possible.

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SOPHIE COLLINSAuthor

Actually - I found the dopamine harder to farm in this joint Codex-Claude combo, but it feels like each thing that's shipped isn't crap. This feels closer to real software development - building tested, reviewed software. Also the review and PR process now happens so much slower that I'm not just slamming changes straight onto live that the dopamine hit of idea-realisation of that idea is not quite as real-time. The drug feels less addictive. It's weird just being a big bag of chemicals.

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