Comment by Razengan

> It's since November 2025, the so called "inflection point", that I'm still wondering for who coding agents become "really good".

You can dig up my past comments semi-arguing with simonw where I said AI just isn't good enough yet, but lately I've been using Codex mostly just to review existing Godot/GDScript code: https://github.com/InvadingOctopus/comedot

and now I'd say that in this day and age one would have to be dumb to not use AI in SOME way :)

It's helped me catch a lot of bugs that would have taken me a long time to even notice on my own. I guess it helps that the project is modular enough where most files can be considered standalone, with just 1-2 dependencies and well-commented already, so the AI can look at each file on its own one at a time. You can see the AGENTS.md I use on that repo.

Most of my productivity in the last 3 or so months has been thanks to AI, though none of the code there is AI generated. I even bought a MacBook Neo just to use as an "AI thin client" while on travel, even though I already had a beefy MacBook Pro M2 Max that I just keep at home/hotel as a desktop now. Codex's recent remote control features have made it more useful for the moments when I get a cool idea while out at a cafe or on a walk.

I don't just copy-paste the AI's output, because it's often inefficient anyway (like creating redundant variables/functions), but I find its findings useful for manually cleaning up my shit. Maybe their training data is not that good with GDScript yet which is a bit of a jank language anyway.

So my core code is wholly made by meat, but I do have fun now and then telling Codex to make experimental games using only the library of modular components I have written so far, to test my framework and also the AI's abilities. This kind of work seems like a surprisingly good match for AI: It just has to put existing blocks together, that already have well-defined interfaces/contracts etc.

I've been on the $20 ChatGPT plan for about a year now, and only started using Codex since like maybe 4 months ago, almost always on the latest model with "Extended Thinking" or "Extra High", because I want my shared code to be as correct as possible because everything else I do depends on it, and I only hit limits like 2 times in the last 3 months.

Claude on the other hand, terrible: https://i.imgur.com/jYawPDY.png

Grok is OK for general stuff, never tried it for coding.

Gemini's UI/UX and lack of privacy and the AI itself is so terrible I tried it just maybe 2 times ever...and it refused to work on Google's own Flights website and reverse image search! (it told me to do it myself)

Deepseek refused to talk about Taiwan or Tiananmen Square so I'm not sure if I can trust it for anything else lol