Codex built and submitted my iOS app in one prompt

"I'm useless" That's how I feel right now. Codex built me a new iOS app and submitted it. One prompt. I never even opened the App Store. It used my browser to write the app listing and uploaded screenshots that it took on my local simulator. I got pinged when the app was accepted. Back in the pre-AI days, I'd throw my fist in the air and tell my wife. Today, I felt nothing but admiration for how far AI has come. The skills I acquired in the last 10 years have become useless. But strangely, I feel good about it. It means the only thing I’m valuable at is being me: thinking and deciding what to work on. The next 10 years are going to be interesting as our value shifts from execution to judgment.

Marc Lou@marclou · Jul 21, 20261 afternoon to build an app 1 week to be reviewed