I did just that and I ended up horribly regretting it. The project had to be coded in Rust, which I kind of understand but never worked with. Drunk on AI hype, I gave it step by step tasks and watched it produce the code. The first warning sign was that the code never compiled at the first attempt, but I ignored this, being mesmerized by the magic of the experience. Long story short, it gave me quick initial results despite my language handicap. But the project quickly turned into an overly complex, hard to navigate, brittle mess. I ended up reading the Rust in Action book and spending two weeks cleaning and simplifying the code. I had to learn how to configure the entire tool chain, understand various cargo deps and the ecosystem, setup ci/cd from scratch, .... There is no way around that.

It was Claude Code Opus 4.1 instead of Codex but IMO the differences are negligible.