Manufacturing factory says ChatGPT and Codex helped it ship 4-5x more retailer integrations
jdjohnson · x · 2026-08-04
A large manufacturing factory owner says AI has sharply increased the pace of internal software work.
- Over the last three months, the company built 4–5x as many commerce integrations with retailers as it did in the previous year.
- The owner said the business is not tech-native and historically could only hire very basic developers for this work.
- Now a single main developer can handle the work, using ChatGPT and a new tool called Codex.
- The example suggests AI is spreading well beyond frontier-tech companies into ordinary operations.
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