This product has made my life substantially easier. I have no affiliation with OpenAI.

Claude refuses to help you build your own harness off a subscription, and OpenAI actively encourages it with Codex App Server. So you’re just in an AI IDE customized to your job and specific needs ALL THE TIME. You know that good feeling you got when your CI pipeline was finally working, back when that involved speed reading documentation and guessing, or staying at work until 10PM? You just get that all the time because life is constantly improving. And your tools are beautiful and riddled with Easter eggs you put in them. There’s so much more time to test and talk to stakeholders because you are able to distribute the thing you are actually good at -solving people’s difficult problems- while following best practices. You used to have to weigh those two every day and it was terrible. And everything was always late. You had to cut so many corners you were delivering circles.

Now life is fun and I’m over-delivering. Constantly. With super high code quality, better test coverage, easier audit prep, and I just explain what I want (technically) at a high level to AI. I still have to code review, and it sucks. Not because the AI needs it, but because auditors need it. I think I can make it faster and easier in the near future with another custom tool.

I actually have time to make architecture diagrams. I have never had enough time to build that level of documentation.

With Fable, I felt the promise of this coming. With Astra, I feel like we finally had the resources to fully professionalize and supply our software team.

We actually need to hire more people next quarter.

I am with the creator of Rails on this. It is a time of joy. Now is the time to become more ambitious.