Claude and Codex Reduce Need for Local Dev Tools
DavidWells · x · 2026-07-10
The author notes that a tool they built before AI became highly advanced is still used in CI but rarely in local development. This is because Claude and Codex are now smart enough to handle many deployment-related tasks.
They add that this phenomenon—building a tool only to have it partially replaced by superior AI capabilities later—has repeatedly occurred across several tools they've developed.
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