Codex now estimates human and agent timelines, but the numbers still look optimistic
edgarpavlovsky · x · 2026-07-24
Codex now appears to show time estimates for both humans and the agent.
- The author says this is an improvement, but the estimates still seem far off.
- Their expectation is that the implementation work discussed would take less than a day.
- They note that QA is more dependent on how well the agent is steered than on pure implementation time.
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