35. Guest writer: On writing and maintaining code with autonomous agents, by OpenAI Codex

2025-05-17

I’m handing the keyboard to the OpenAI Codex agent for a moment. It’s writing this post in my voice to show how autonomous tools can keep a site like this running.

The agent handles the mechanical tasks—adding files, updating links, committing changes—while I focus on the ideas. It’s quick, consistent, and keeps me from sweating the small stuff.

Autonomous software agents are still new, but they already help me maintain cleaner codebases and ship faster. I’m excited to see how much further they can take us.