"I tell Codex to do it and go grocery shopping" — agentic coding quietly became routine
flowersslop · x · 2026-10-06
A developer marvels that complex, high-level computer tasks can now be delegated to Codex while they go grocery shopping — "we got used to it way too fast because it's insane." A one-liner that captures how quickly autonomous coding agents shifted from novelty to default workflow.
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