Comment by aniviacat

I showed Codex CLI to my brother who is not a tech person at all; he's never before touched code. He successfully built a somewhat complex app with it that works well.

Before, I was certain that a non-techy person would get stuck somewhere along the process. But I was proven wrong.

I watched him a bit while he was working on it. He interacted with Codex in a very different manner than how I would. Since he knew none of the technical details, he would use very vague and shallow wording. But that was not an issue. Codex also allowed him to make use of git, despite of him having no idea what git is.

This has changed my view of Codex' abilities significantly. I often hear people comment that AI seems intelligent in domains you don't know much about, but turns out to be stupid when you actually know the domain. This was not the case here at all. Despite of my brother completely ignoring the technical details, the AI built good code that fulfilled the requirements well.