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faangguyindiayesterday at 5:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

I saw Codex was screenshotting, then clicking around. I just stopped it and never used that again.

Using CLI tools is much faster and token-efficient. I developed ten apps in the last two months. One reached 10,000+ monthly active users.

I ask Codex to generate SVG line by line and backtrack edit, ask it to use Inkscape to generate icons, etc...

I developed all this on $20 codex sub.


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 5:32 PM

I think it's the third or forth time I see you bragging about HN how many apps you're able to develop with AI now. Care to link any of them, especially where we can see the actual code that you've produced here? Without being able to see actual results, I'm not sure what you want people to take away from your repeated comments.

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ceejayozyesterday at 5:30 PM

Claude does this too, with the Chrome extension.

It breaks like 80% of the time for me, and it's incredibly slow. Having it use Playwright (bonus: can test in FF/Saf too) was a big improvement.