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Simon Willison, co-creator of the Django web framework, describes building a new newsletters page for his blog almost entirely by talking to his laptop while cooking dinner, using the voice conversation mode in the Codex tab of the ChatGPT desktop app against a local development environment.
Hands-free, conversational programming has long been a demo; a detailed first-hand account from a respected developer is a useful signal that it is becoming practical for real, if modest, tasks — and a glimpse of how coding interfaces may change.