Watching Codex work while grinding WoW beta: productivity 'actually went up'
djcows · x · 2026-10-01
Responding to a question about whether the AI Twitter crowd would commit to World of Warcraft, @djcows says he's occasionally online in the beta and looking forward to the full release.
The amusing twist from the original tweet: grinding three level-20 characters in the WoW beta caused no drop in productivity — it may have increased, since the author now sits at the computer watching Codex run anyway. A snapshot of the 'agent works, I play' workflow.
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