Custom harnesses get mogged by Codex: the midwit meme of AI coding
rez0__ · x · 2026-10-29
Researcher rez0 quote-tweeted a post noting that people spend days or weeks building fancy custom harnesses only to get "mogged" by Codex — illustrated with the midwit bell curve meme, with the Codex desktop app on both ends and the custom harness in the middle. The joke: those just using Codex straight are right, and the clever middle over-engineering their own harness loses. It captures the ongoing "build vs. use the official product" debate in AI coding.
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