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Everyday Users Shrug at OpenAI's Powerful Codex Updates

A tech user showed non-technical friends how Codex builds custom apps but received blank stares.

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Everyday Users Shrug at OpenAI's Powerful Codex Updates

A tech user showed non-technical friends how Codex builds custom apps but received blank stares.

The original post by @liljuuliet described showing Codex to normie friends and noting they did not care about making whatever they want. Replies from @connordinnadge and @cipherstein observed that such users like image generation but show no interest in building or coding. @seconds_0 added that most people do not want to make things. @FarouqAldori described helping a brother fix a corrupted 3DS SD card with Codex, after which the brother began using it regularly. @GarrettPetersen suggested the friends may have assumed programming already worked that way.

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18 189@liljuuliet 10:44 AM · Sep 8, 2026
was showing my normie friends codex and how you can just make whatever you want and they literally didn’t give a fuck

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Everyday Users Shrug at OpenAI's Powerful Codex Updates

A tech user showed non-technical friends how Codex builds custom apps but received blank stares.

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18 189@liljuuliet 10:44 AM · Sep 8, 2026
was showing my normie friends codex and how you can just make whatever you want and they literally didn’t give a fuck

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Connor@connordinnadge 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet @yacineMTB I had the same experience… they love image gen, but none of them are interested in building anything or experimenting with what these models are capable of 😔
- likes: 10
- replies: 1
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
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0.005 Seconds (3/694)@seconds_0 5 hrs ago
Yeah Everyone is already making everything they want. Most people dont want to make things
- likes: 367
- replies: 12
- bookmarks: 23
- reposts: 8
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  Andy Scott@AndyJScott 5 hrs ago
  @seconds_0 "hey man this is literally magic" "it can't spell strawberry and its poisoning our water"
  - likes: 7
  - replies: 0
  - bookmarks: 0
  - reposts: 0
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  iban (spygov.com)@mycelias 3 hrs ago
  @seconds_0 i dont have enough time or money to make all the stuff i want
  - likes: 2
  - replies: 1
  - bookmarks: 0
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Farouq Aldori@FarouqAldori 5 hrs ago
If you want your friends and family to use codex you gotta solve a problem that's relevant to them for example, I helped my younger brother repair his corrupted 3DS SD card with codex, he literally called it "jarvis" since then, he's been using it for quite a lot of things
- likes: 3
- replies: 0
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
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Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️@GarrettPetersen 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet They probably thought programming already worked like that.
- likes: 258
- replies: 5
- bookmarks: 3
- reposts: 1

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Connor@connordinnadge 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet @yacineMTB I had the same experience… they love image gen, but none of them are interested in building anything or experimenting with what these models are capable of 😔
- likes: 10
- replies: 1
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
0S
0.005 Seconds (3/694)@seconds_0 5 hrs ago
Yeah Everyone is already making everything they want. Most people dont want to make things
- likes: 367
- replies: 12
- bookmarks: 23
- reposts: 8
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Farouq Aldori@FarouqAldori 5 hrs ago
If you want your friends and family to use codex you gotta solve a problem that's relevant to them for example, I helped my younger brother repair his corrupted 3DS SD card with codex, he literally called it "jarvis" since then, he's been using it for quite a lot of things
- likes: 3
- replies: 0
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
DD
Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️@GarrettPetersen 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet They probably thought programming already worked like that.
- likes: 258
- replies: 5
- bookmarks: 3
- reposts: 1
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Chris P. Wicks 🔎🐜@CrispyWicks 5 hrs ago
"what did you make" "Look it can pull from all these folders and command sub-agents and coordinate itself in Discord and..." "but what did you make with it doing all that" ????
- likes: 20
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- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
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Ilya Lichtenstein@cipherstein 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet Turns out most people don't actually want to code
- likes: 42
- replies: 4
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0

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Connor@connordinnadge 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet @yacineMTB I had the same experience… they love image gen, but none of them are interested in building anything or experimenting with what these models are capable of 😔
- likes: 10
- replies: 1
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
0S
0.005 Seconds (3/694)@seconds_0 5 hrs ago
Yeah Everyone is already making everything they want. Most people dont want to make things
- likes: 367
- replies: 12
- bookmarks: 23
- reposts: 8
1. AS
  Andy Scott@AndyJScott 5 hrs ago
  @seconds_0 "hey man this is literally magic" "it can't spell strawberry and its poisoning our water"
  - likes: 7
  - replies: 0
  - bookmarks: 0
  - reposts: 0
2. I(
  iban (spygov.com)@mycelias 3 hrs ago
  @seconds_0 i dont have enough time or money to make all the stuff i want
  - likes: 2
  - replies: 1
  - bookmarks: 0
  - reposts: 0
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Farouq Aldori@FarouqAldori 5 hrs ago
If you want your friends and family to use codex you gotta solve a problem that's relevant to them for example, I helped my younger brother repair his corrupted 3DS SD card with codex, he literally called it "jarvis" since then, he's been using it for quite a lot of things
- likes: 3
- replies: 0
- bookmarks: 1
- reposts: 0
DD
Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️@GarrettPetersen 5 hrs ago
@liljuuliet They probably thought programming already worked like that.
- likes: 258
- replies: 5
- bookmarks: 3
- reposts: 1