@reach_vb: it still blows my mind that I can just delegate things to codex before sleeping and wake up to it still chugging along …
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A user shares their experience using Codex to autonomously handle coding tasks across multiple codebases overnight, producing a PR.
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it still blows my mind that I can just delegate things to codex before sleeping and wake up to it still chugging along and sending me a PR once done!
in this particular case codex looked through 3 different codebases, setup their working copies, tested them across various features and flags and updated the docs based on its observations
you can just delegate things to codex
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