This came up in Chinese AI developer communities this week, and the energy around it was hard to ignore. A post celebrating OpenAI Codex drew 432 comments in a short window. The author described the feeling as "one person commanding a thousand troops." One commenter had shipped an automated video editing pipeline using a local Qwen model for frame tagging, DeepSeek for script rewriting, and a custom AI director layer for cut decisions, all built primarily through Codex. Another had automated the...