Engineer onboards ad director and surgeon onto Codex — their use cases surprise even her
enggirlfriend · x · 2026-11-02
An engineer shares observations from onboarding two non-tech friends (an ad agency director and a surgeon) onto Codex, computer use, and agents. Key takeaways: other industries are far behind — even tech-savvy professionals still use ChatGPT/Claude as a search engine or paper summarizer; after learning code workflows, the friends kept finding unexpected use cases since non-engineers aren't afraid to just try things; and she picks Codex over Claude Code as significantly more normie-friendly, calling Claude Code's UX 'built for engineers by engineers'.
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