Developer who found Codex 'slow and annoying' 1.5 years ago declares AGI achieved
gajesh · x · 2026-09-05
Looking back at a livestream from 1.5 years ago where he tried to build a fully on-chain chess game from scratch with Codex and GPT-5 Pro, the author recalls the experience as "so slow and annoying" that he'd rather write the code himself.
Now he can't believe how far things have come, declaring "AGI has been achieved" and calling this "the era of abundant lives" — quoting his original stream as the before/after contrast.
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