GPT-5-CODEX IS A BETTER AI RESEARCHER THAN ME

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

This dev uses OpenAI's GPT-5-Codex to automate AI research, and he found that Codex outperformed his solo efforts, especially in generating coherent stories. The process involved a feedback loop where Codex suggested experiments based on results, and Goedecke selected or contributed ideas. The most successful approach was distilling a transformer model from an n-gram model, which improved story coherence by initially focusing on grammatical correctness.