What I Learned Running OpenAI Codex on a Real Spring Boot Codebase
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Most "I tried Codex on Java" posts use a greenfield todo app. I did the opposite: a Spring Boot monorepo with a real domain model, MapStruct mappers, a Flyway migration history, and a test suite that already existed before the agent showed up. I ran it for a couple of weeks. What surprised me wasn'…
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- 2026-10-21 10:57 · DEV Community — AI
What I Learned Running OpenAI Codex on a Real Spring Boot Codebase