QA Engineer Uses Codex to Learn DevOps, Then Wonders What's Left to Learn
Recent-Tangerine2745 · reddit · 2026-09-09
- A QA engineer transitioning to DevOps gave Codex access to his personal project repo (Git, TypeScript, Playwright, CI/CD) for the first time.
- Codex autonomously inspected the code, found the issue, modified files, added regression tests, cleaned up line-ending problems, ran all validations, and created a commit—while he kept working, returning only a clean summary.
- He now questions how to balance coding-agent productivity with actually learning: his approach is to build new concepts manually and reserve agents for reviews, repetitive work, and catching mistakes.
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