I built a new app and I don't know how I feel about it
The author developed a time zone conversion app using OpenAI's Codex, reflecting on the experience of building it with minimal coding. Despite successfully launching the app, the author expresses mixed feelings about the process and the outcome. The app aims to provide a clean, efficient solution for users needing to manage time zones across a globally distributed team.
- ▪The app was created to address issues with existing time zone converters, which often have advertisements and performance problems.
- ▪Codex was used to plan, implement, and test the application, resulting in a functional product in less than a day.
- ▪The author had to guide Codex to optimize the app and reduce unnecessary data in the JSON file.
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| Original publisher | Phil Nash |
| Canonical URL | https://philna.sh/blog/2026/05/25/i-built-a-new-app-and-i-dont-know-how-i-feel-about-it/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 00:16:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T00:37:40.913Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T00:37:40.913Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _M5uy0YrGMHD · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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I built a new app and I don't know how I feel about it Published by Phil Nash on May 25, 2026 Subscribe to this blog Much like almost every other developer on the planet, I have been trying to work out my relationship with coding agents. I have been using AI-assisted coding since the GitHub Copilot beta came out in 2021 (yes, that long ago) and have seen them evolve from being a fancy autocomplete to sidebar assistants to full-blown applications that don't even show you the code (unless you want to see it). I've used almost all variations of coding assistants, but one thing I hadn't experimented with was building something new via prompts alone. I wanted to see what I could achieve with minimal touching of the code. So I powered up OpenAI's Codex and built a new app.
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