OpenAI Codex usage data shows developers delegating complex tasks like refactors and architecture planning to run overnight
The Overnight Engineer There’s a pattern showing up in OpenAI’s Codex usage data that I think deserves more attention than it’s getting. Developers are queuing up their hardest tasks at the end of the workday and letting Codex run through them overnight. Refactors. Architecture planning. The stuff that has lived on backlogs for months because…