I built a new app and I don't know how I feel about it 0 ▲ Phil Nash 58 days ago · 7 min read1466 words · Tech · hide · 0 comments Much like almost every other developer on the planet, I have been trying to work out my relationship with coding agents. I have been using AI-assisted coding since the GitHub Copilot beta came out in 2021 (yes, that long ago) and have seen them evolve from being a fancy autocomplete to sidebar assistants to full-blown applications that don't even show you the code (unless you want to see it). I've used almost all variations of coding assistants, but one thing I hadn't experimented with was building something new via prompts alone. I wanted to see what I could achieve with minimal touching of the code. So I powered up OpenAI's Codex and built a new app. I've launched it, I use it regularly, and I still don't know how I feel about it. I built a time zone conversion app The application I wanted to build was a time zone converter. I work on a globally distributed team and it's often very useful to know what time it is for everyone, especially if you want to send someone a message or… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.