Codex Amplifies Human Capabilities
_arohan_ · x · 2026-07-17
The author found the most interesting part to be that a "highly skilled but very humble" kernel hacker, who wasn't necessarily familiar with QR algorithms, managed to write a brilliant submission in their spare time with the help of Codex.
He uses this to emphasize: the result of a coding agent + a human depends largely on the operator themselves. The same tool will yield vastly different outputs depending on the skill level and judgment of the person using it.
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