https://mw.magneticflux.net/tags/codex/ Recent content in Codex on MagneticFlux LLC Hugo en-us This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://mw.magneticflux.net/posts/programming/closed-source-patching-economics/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://mw.magneticflux.net/posts/programming/closed-source-patching-economics/ Coding agents do not care much whether JavaScript is pretty, bundled, or minified. Codex Plus is a deliberately frivolous test of what happens when that indifference is pointed at a closed Electron app: the first patch was easy enough to be hilarious, while the real question is whether agents can keep the maintenance loop cheap enough to matter.