10 ChatGPT Codex Secrets I Only Learned After 60 Hours Of Pair Programming With It
ZDNet, Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Pair programming with ChatGPT Codex for a week exposed hard-won lessons every developer should know before trying it.
Last week, I put in somewhere between 50 and 60 hours of pair programming with, and getting to know, ChatGPT Codex.
Pair programming is an old term with a new meaning. Pair programming is the practice of two or more programmers writing code together at the same time. For years, the two programmers were two humans. But as of late, with the advent of coding AI, pair programming can mean a human pairing up with an AI to code together. That's what I've been doing.