Simon Willison builds blog feature using voice mode

Developer Simon Willison used the voice conversation mode in the Codex tab of the ChatGPT desktop app to build a new Newsletters page for his blog while cooking dinner. The feature, built with the GPT-6 Astra High model, included a new model, migration, view code, templates, and import functions.

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