two weeks ago I started heavily using Codex (I have 20y+ dev xp).
At first I was very enthusiastic and thought Codex is helping me multiplex myself. But you actually spend so much time trying to explain Codex the most obvious things and it gets them wrong all the time in some kind of nuanced way that in the end you spend more time doing things via Codex than by hand.
So I also dialed back Codex usage and got back to doing many more things by hand again because its just so much faster and much more predictable time-wise.
We've built a version of this on steroids - not only a registry, but also one-click mcp hosting. Would love you eyeballs if you're into mcp: https://supermachine.ai
Yeah, I do both in prod and in the lib. In the lib I even ported Anthropics streaming API to be OpenAI compatible. Will write the docs over the coming days if interested.
Assistants API use in prod used to suck because it would send full convo on each message. But last month they added an option to send truncted history so its no longer 2$ a pop thankfully. Also Grok, Haiku and Mistral is cheap
At first I was very enthusiastic and thought Codex is helping me multiplex myself. But you actually spend so much time trying to explain Codex the most obvious things and it gets them wrong all the time in some kind of nuanced way that in the end you spend more time doing things via Codex than by hand.
So I also dialed back Codex usage and got back to doing many more things by hand again because its just so much faster and much more predictable time-wise.