Simon Willison • 2/6/2026

Quoting Karel D'Oosterlinck

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The article quotes Karel D'Oosterlinck on using OpenAI's Codex to automate research tasks. It details how Codex explores Slack channels, reads discussions, fetches experimental branches, and cherry-picks changes to set up experiments and make hyperparameter decisions, significantly reducing manual effort in unfamiliar code.

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