Been playing around with Codex all day. It’s great at generating SQL queries from simple English. It got requests like this correct almost every single time!
This brings us MUCH closer to sci-fi (Jarvis/LCARS) like computers that can give us data as we speak to them :D
Congrats on finishing the challenge!
And sorry about the slowness; we had more demand than expected and the competition servers did not respond well to the load.
Oh I came in 8th in the @OpenAI Codex challenge! Yay free t-shirt :D
Not at all a reflection of my programming ability (the system was super glitchy in the beginning – I suspect a lot of people just left). But I'm super super impressed by Codex [1/]
Just wrote a web scraper for my own blog using @OpenAI Codex in few mins.
Worked well with just a couple of lines of change.
It even used the prompts to comment on the relevant code.
My personal favorite of our Codex examples — a program written in Python, which rewrites itself into Ruby, which rewrites itself into Python, which rewrites itself into Ruby, ad infinitum.
Writing it felt like writing a new kind of quine (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_…).
The new @OpenAI Codex model is a pretty exciting piece of technology.
Here I made a @Blender add-on and taught it how to use the built in Python API.
Taking creative coding to the next level!!
I think Codex will cause far more people to become programmers, and make it much more fun to write software (certainly that's been my experience so far!):
Codex shines when it comes to completing operations that are easy to express but hard to remember the exact syntax or library call for.
A demo of Codex speeding me up to fetch, transform, and plot data using Pandas: