Comment by osigurdson

While I didn't agree with the "junior developer" analogy in the past, I am finding that it is beginning to be a bit more like that. The new Codex tool from OpenAI feels a lot more like this. It seems to work best if you already have a few examples of something that you want to do and now want to add another. My tactic is to spell it out very clearly in the prompt and really focus on having it consistently implement another similar thing with a narrow scope. Because it takes quite a while, I will usually just fix any issues myself as opposed to asking it to fix them. I'm still experimenting but I think a well crafted spec / AGENTS.md file begins to become quite important. For me, this + regular ChatGPT interactions are much more valuable than synchronous / Windsurf / Cursor style usage. I'd prefer to review a more meaningful PR than a million little diffs synchronously.