Developer says Codex researched and built a custom demo environment overnight
nickbaumann_ · x · 2026-07-24
A developer describes waking up at 1 a.m. to feed a 3-month-old, noticing they’d been added to an 8 a.m. meeting, and then using Codex in a remote session to research and build a custom demo environment overnight.
By morning, the entire setup had been executed correctly. It’s a short but concrete example of an agentic coding workflow doing real prep work without the user staying awake.
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