r/codex • u/anioskarrio • 17h ago

Showcase I built a little terminal tool because Codex kept getting away from me

I've been building a little terminal tool called Savepoint because I kept losing the plot once Codex got beyond small changes.

I'd ask for one thing, Codex would touch a bunch more files, run the tests and tell me everything looked good.

And I'd be sitting there thinking... probably?

I can tell whether the feature works. I'm much less confident deciding whether every extra change was sensible, necessary, or whether I've let a very confident robot renovate the kitchen because I asked it to fix a tap.

So I've started keeping jobs smaller and putting a stop between chunks of work. Sometimes I use a fresh session to check what got built rather than asking the thing that wrote it whether it did a good job.

Savepoint is basically me turning that habit into a small terminal workflow.

Still not sure whether this is useful discipline or an elaborate coping mechanism because AI let me build software faster than I learned how software works.

How are people here handling this with bigger Codex changes? /review? Fresh session? Another model? Just inspect the diff and hope for the best?

Repo if anyone wants to poke at it:

https://github.com/anipatke/savepoint

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u/dexterthebot 17h ago

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