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.
Related event: QA Engineer Learns DevOps with Codex — and the Agent Does Everything(2 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- General agents burn ~140M tokens/month on LinkedIn outreach; scripts do it 60x cheaper — ChrisHarpon2 · 2026-10-26
- NLI alone rejects 5/6 new agent memories; a 0.45 similarity gate fixes it all — Alternative_Pin9598 · 2026-10-26
- LangChain ships Managed Deep Agents 0.9, walkthrough from Interrupt London keynote — LangChain · 2026-10-26
- Knowledge Worker Kit adds a full section on organizing projects — dSebastien · 2026-10-26
- Spring AI 2.1.0-RC1 adds tool-call confirmation, pausing agent loops before real-data access — therealdanvega · 2026-10-26
- METR red-teams OpenAI's agent monitoring, finds bypasses and gaps — thione · 2026-10-26