From a Ten-Line Script to a Real Utility with Codex

I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily ….

From a Ten-Line Script to a Real Utility with Codex. Normally, I’ll kick out a few lines of script for something I want and be done, accepting that it isn’t production-hardened. This time, however, I decided to try an AI tool to see whether they could do the work I was too lazy to do myself.

While I’ve played with chatbots, I wanted to try one of the dedicated coding agents, in this case, Codex. Outside of asking ChatGPT to write a simple function or find the cause of an error message, I haven’t done much coding with AI assistance, so I was interested to see what these agents brought to the table. A Radio Problem The problem was simple: I wanted an easy way to put buttons on my Linux desktop that launched Internet radio stations.