Simon Willison ships a blog feature by voice, coding with Codex while cooking dinner
athyuttamre · x · 2026-10-09
- Simon Willison built and shipped a new Newsletters page for his blog almost entirely by voice, using the ChatGPT desktop app's Codex voice mode (GPT-6 Astra High) against a local dev environment while cooking dinner.
- Workflow: start the dev server via typed prompt for visual progress tracking, then run a voice chat from the kitchen; the task covered a new Django model, migration, views, templates, and data import functions.
- Quoting athyuttamre: the killer feature is multitasking — he can now build things while cooking instead of just listening to podcasts.
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