--- title: Artificial adventures | daily.dev description: A developer shares a grounded, personal account of experimenting with AI coding tools including Claude Code, Codex, and various frontier models. The most... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/artificial-adventures-bjp6wu9hd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Artificial adventures | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares a grounded, personal account of experimenting with AI coding tools including Claude Code, Codex, and various frontier models. The most... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/artificial-adventures-bjp6wu9hd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bJP6WU9Hd.png og:image:alt: Artificial adventures og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Artificial adventures **[Jamie Brandon](https://daily.dev/sources/jamiebrandon)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares a grounded, personal account of experimenting with AI coding tools including Claude Code, Codex, and various frontier models. The most consistent value came from code review (catching real bugs like double-frees) and mechanical refactoring tasks. Writing code collaboratively was frustrating due to poor AI judgment, scope creep, and difficulty reviewing AI-generated changes. Autonomous code generation for non-trivial tasks largely failed. The author also notes AI tools work well for one-off scripts and search tasks where answers are verifiable. Key observations: frontier models (Opus, GPT-5) are noticeably better than cheaper alternatives; AI safety training is easily bypassed; brainstorming suggestions are uniformly banal; and current agentic harnesses feel poorly built. The author is cautiously optimistic that better tooling and practices will improve outcomes even without smarter models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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