Codex user argues AI tooling needs Jobs-style 'start with the experience' design
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-10-21
After building with codex, the author argues AI dev tools present too many abstraction layers — "too many compasses" — while docs and apps are simultaneously becoming useless. Builders should start from intention and aim for a feeling, echoing Steve Jobs' "start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology." He predicts the consumer/business user distinction will blur, and that AI companies shouldn't optimize the optimizer's optimizer but simply build for humans.
More from AGI Musings
- Memia #2026.42: AI agents scan 3,830 articles to curate 312 future signals — ben_r · 2026-10-21
- No frontier model is honest enough to enable recursive self-improvement, researcher says — scottleibrand · 2026-10-21
- X thread argues the 'death of hobbies' complaints are really about lost superiority — kevinnbass · 2026-10-21
- AI unicorn founders' average age drops from 40 to 29 as startups hit unicorn in 4.7 years — FinanceYF5 · 2026-10-21
- Schmidt and Ferguson Argue China and the U.S. Are Building "Empires of AI" — marigo · 2026-10-21
- Reviewer laments ICLR review motivation is gone as AI erases respect for authors' effort — AvivTamar1 · 2026-10-21