Codex for Site Edits, Sora for Visual Sketches

Codex has become part of how I maintain this site, often from my phone: fixing a layout bug, tightening a sentence, adjusting spacing by a few pixels. I like that these changes no longer require a full work session at a desk. The project stays close enough that I can maintain it in spare moments.

That has changed my relationship to the site in a specific way. The work is less batch-oriented now. Instead of waiting until I have an uninterrupted hour, I can make one precise improvement and move on.

Sora feels different. With Codex, I usually know what I want before I start: fix this bug, rewrite this line, clean up this layout. With Sora, I am often still discovering the idea while I am using the tool, such as testing a cover direction or a visual treatment before I know whether it belongs anywhere. Most of what I make there still feels exploratory rather than finished.

That difference is part of why the authorship question does not feel especially confusing to me. In both cases, the intention and judgment are still mine. I decide what to ask for, what to keep, and what to throw away: whether a generated image direction is usable, whether a sentence sounds like me, or whether a patch actually improves the page.

I am less interested in defending these tools in the abstract than in whether they help me work something out more clearly. For this site, Codex has made iteration lighter. With Sora, the answer still feels less settled, which is part of why I am still drawn to it.