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Positive feedback from a former developer: Codex is genuinely amazing
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Hi,
I wanted to write proper feedback about Codex, because honestly, this thing is amazing.
I’m a former software developer. I can read code, I understand what is happening, but at this point in my life I really, really don’t want to spend my days digging through code again. That was one of the reasons why I ignored Codex for a while, even though it was recommended to me many times.
And then I finally started using it properly.
Well. That was a mistake not to do earlier.
Codex turned out to be exactly the kind of tool I needed. Not because it just “writes code”, but because it helps me turn messy ideas into actual working systems. I can explain what I want in normal human language, adjust instructions, change the logic, improve workflows, and still stay in control without living inside the codebase again.
Some examples of what I’ve already been doing with it:
I made a small project for myself that helps me commit things to a repository right away. I work with scripts, workflows, and custom instruction files, and for me it is really important to commit changes immediately, before I forget what I changed and why. Codex helped me build a workflow around that.
I also made an ElevenLabs Studio / voiceover workflow. And this one was huge for me. I make Russian voiceovers for news content, and the ElevenLabs UI is honestly very uncomfortable for this kind of work. It is slow, heavy, and just not nice to use when you need a proper workflow.
With Codex, I connected things through the API / MCP-style setup, gave it documentation, and we built a much better process. Now I can prepare texts before sending them to voice generation, handle different voices, tone, pauses, and pronunciation much better.
Before that, Russian news articles could sound like a disaster when read by a generated voice. Names, tone, dictionary replacements, pronunciation — everything could go wrong. Now the text is prepared properly before voice generation, and the result is so much better.
I also have a project for writing K-pop news. I write about K-pop, and Codex helps me combine several news sources into one article, keep English and Russian names consistent, find member names, group names, and make the text fit my own editorial style. I already had another editor tool, but it didn’t cover everything I needed, so Codex helped me build the missing parts.
Another project is called Phoenix. It is not finished yet, but I really hope to finish it. The idea is to organize my medical documents and reports from different hospitals and different countries. I have documents in Russian, Montenegrin/Serbian, Turkish, Korean, and English. Manually keeping all of that understandable is just painful. Codex helps me think through the structure, what should be extracted, how reports should be stored, and how to make this archive actually useful.
I also used Codex with Notion. I connected Notion through API / MCP tools, moved and organized notes, and compiled scattered information into a better structure. This was one of those moments where I was just sitting there thinking: okay, this is actually crazy good.
I also have an automatic translator workflow.
Another big thing is my illustration workflow. This one was painful for a while, because I needed images to be generated in a very specific way: covers, article illustrations, visual content, all with my own style requirements. I tested many workflow versions, and now I have a very long, detailed workflow that actually gives me images much closer to what I want. It took work, but Codex helped me make the process real instead of just chaotic experiments.
I’m also planning a much bigger image and video archive project. I have a large personal media archive organized by years, but I want to make it searchable in a smarter way. I want vector indexes and metadata, so I can ask something like: “Do I have photos of a forest with cats?” or “Where are the videos with street cats?” and get actual file locations instead of manually digging through folders forever.
And one more project is connected to ASMR videos and nail design. I started doing my own artificial nails for videos, and now I’m building a database of nail materials, tools, stickers, charms, colors, and techniques. The idea is that Codex can work with my Notion database, check what I already have, and suggest what materials to use for a design. I tested the idea a little already, and it works, but I still need to add more materials to the database.
So yes, for me Codex is not just a coding assistant. It is more like a tool for automating my life.
It helps me organize chaos. It helps me build personal systems. It helps me make tools for very specific problems that no ready-made app would ever solve properly for me.
The only real problem is that I constantly run out of credits. I use Codex so much that sometimes I literally plan my sleep around when I can use more credits again. I know this sounds a bit ridiculous, but also I think it says a lot about how useful Codex has become for me.
Thank you to the team working on it. Codex is genuinely great. It made building things feel possible and fun again, even for someone like me, who understands programming but really does not want to spend her life buried in code anymore.