Carson Farmer uses Codex for a micro-rewrite in a standalone side app
carsonfarmer · x · 2026-07-23
Carson Farmer says they had a spark of insight about an app the team is building, so they had Codex spin up a side project to micro-rewrite a small part of the app.
The experiment used a freshly isolated standalone app with its own database, which suggests the team is using Codex for tightly scoped, reproducible product exploration rather than broad, open-ended refactors.
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