Simon Willison ships a shippable blog feature using voice-only agentic coding with GPT-6 Astra
2026-10-09
Simon Willison wrote on October 9, 2026 that he built a complete new feature for his blog — a newsletter archive page with a new Django model, migration, admin config, four data-importers, and search integration — almost entirely by voice, using ChatGPT desktop's Codex tab in voice-conversation mode against a local development environment, running GPT-6 Astra High. The session took about 30 minutes while he cooked dinner; he finished the remaining steps (new API keys, review, deployment) at the keyboard.
Significance 2: A single credible practitioner's detailed first-person account of what current agentic coding tools can produce from voice input alone is a useful capability data point, but it is one anecdote, not a benchmarked or reproduced result.
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- curator A new feature for my blog, built using my voice retrieved 2026-10-09