Codex adds work mode with coding and everyday options
Codex includes a work mode setting that lets users select between coding mode for technical responses and everyday work mode that applies the same capabilities with reduced technical detail. Ethan Mollick observed that the interface remains oriented toward developers even in its ambitions as an everything app. Mikhail Parakhin replied in agreement with both points on the interface structure and its underlying assumptions.
#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICKCodex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app.
And it continues the somewhat annoying AI perspective that non-coders are just not as competent and need stuff hidden from them, as opposed to requiring a different form of complexity.
Another aspect of this is that Codex, like a good programmer, wants to generalize problems. It has a tendency to write a repeatable code base that generates the required output. But for a lot of non-coding work, this is unnecessary and often limiting, since it anchors the work.
Ethan Mollick@emollickCodex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app. And it continues the somewhat annoying AI perspective that non-coders are just not as competent and need stuff hidden from them, as opposed to requiring a different form of complexity.
@emollick Very true on both accounts!
Ethan Mollick@emollickCodex is very good, but it is still a very "developer coded" interface for an everything app. And it continues the somewhat annoying AI perspective that non-coders are just not as competent and need stuff hidden from them, as opposed to requiring a different form of complexity.