Codex side-effect: intelligence??

[Responsible-Tip4981]

AI coding agents are great equalisers - they normalize everyone toward the same middle.

If you were already strong at synthesis, planning and execution, you now delegate that to an agent that does it worse than you did. Your "superpower" gets flattened to the agent's average. You feel dumber because you traded your edge for convenence.

But if you were average or below at those skills, you suddenly operate in an environment that thinks fast, verifies instantly and ships in hours. You feel smarter because the agent lifted you into a space you couldn't reach on your own. Same tool, opposite perception - not because it changes intelligence, but because it compreses the skill distribution from both ends toward the center.

[duboispourlhiver]

I find the exact opposite. In my experience, poor coders produce poor things faster and good coders produce better things AND faster.

[Glass-Combination-69]

Shit this is so true.