Dad finishes a month of work in 5 minutes with Codex and Claude Code
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-27
A user taught his dad to use Codex and Claude Code for work — the dad then called him in tears of joy after finishing in 5 minutes what had taken one of his employees an entire month.
Yacine's takeaway: "we're very early, like absurdly so" — the productivity gap AI coding tools open up for ordinary knowledge workers is already absurd, and most people haven't noticed.
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