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I went hands-on with ChatGPT Codex and the vibe was not good - here's what happened


I asked ChatGPT Codex to fix my WordPress plugin. It rewrote nine files, submitted a pull request, and crashed my test server. It did recover - but where's the flow?

Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNETI found a more effective approach was to ask Codex to do a quick security audit and let me know if there were any issues. Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNETAll three areas were valid, although I am not prepared to modify the serialization data structure at this time, because I'm saving that for a whole preferences overhaul. Codex didn't try to rewrite large sections of the plugin; it just modified the small areas that needed improvement.

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