A week ago I gave Codex a try and I was thoroughly impressed by it!

First, I gave it a small task, converting a .rst file to .md, which it did easily.

Suitably impressed, I went home and vibe-coded an entire website over the weekend. You can check it out at https://people.dataverse.org. It's on GitHub at https://github.com/gdcc/people.dataverse.org.

As I wrote about on the Dataverse Zulip, this “people” website is something I first tried to build manually years ago. (That old code is also on GitHub if you're interested.)

My prompt was something like “download this spreadsheet and build me community directory” and from the very first commit I had a nice proof of concept, full of “people” cards and fields from the spreadsheet.

This time was different. Instead of sweating the details of the code, I was quick to say “good enough” after a quick glance.