Developer Stunned as Codex Rebuilds Complex Codebase from Scratch in 2 Hours
___Patrice___ · x · 2026-08-08
A seasoned developer expressed amazement at OpenAI Codex's capabilities. Facing a highly complex codebase the developer had worked on for years, Codex managed to rebuild it from scratch in just two hours, delivering a surreal 'speedrun' performance.
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