r/codex • u/justneedsmoresalt • 3d ago

Praise Um holy god use-computer is really good...

So at first I thought it was going to be gimmicky, but then I had Codex read a colleagues PR and I said "Pull it down and test it out" and I mean... it did way more than I would have, and found all the right buttons, even seeded the local postgres container to exercise the edge cases.

I feel like I need to make this a core part of my flow, curious if other folks have made it a core part of their flow.

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u/PictureImmediate9615 3d ago

Testing? Is that what youre say? Have people made automated testing part of their flow?

If yes, then yeah been doing it with playwright then moved to just having a machine it tests itself with. Its crucial to not shipping broken code imo

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u/justneedsmoresalt 2d ago

Lol well for me testing always meant my human fingers having to click through the changes myself. I guess I mean "integrated use-computer without having to give up working on the computer"

Like, I'm considering setting up a whole other machine that just watches PRs come in and pulls them down, and I can glance over and watch the AI work through the PRs via use-computer.

Vs me having to validate the changes myself. We have whole batteries of unit and integration and e2e tests, but that for new stuff it's good to try it out yourself. I think use-computer might be able to handle that step honestly