šØ OpenAI just launched Codex, a brand-new autonomous coding agent that can build features and fix bugs on its own. Weāve been using it @every for a few days, and Iām impressed. I invited Alexander Embiricos (@embiricos), a member of the product staff responsible for Codex, to demo Codex and talk about it live on a special edition of AI & I: What Codex is and how it works Codex is designed to be used by senior engineersāit performs coding tasks like adding features or fixing bugs autonomously. It's built to allow you to start many sessions at once, so you can have multiple agents working in parallel. Codex is built to have "taste" OpenAI trained Codex to have the taste of a senior software engineer. It knows how big codebases work, how to write a good PR, and uses clean, minimal code. Why an āabundance mindsetā is best for interacting with agents Codex is designed to allow users to delegate many tasks at once without getting caught up in the details. This lets you point an abundance of agents at a specific task like a difficult bugāitās worth it even if only one of them succeeds. How OpenAI is thinking about agents Codex is one piece of a unified super-assistant OpenAI wants to eventually buildāan agent that helps users easily get things done by selecting the right tools for them behind the scenes. OpenAIās vision for the future of programming In the future developers will probably spend less time writing routine code and more time guiding agents, reviewing their work, and making strategy decisions. Programming will become more social, letting teams easily delegate multiple tasks at once, allowing people to focus on ideas and collaboration instead of routine coding. Watch below!
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@every @embiricos read my full day-0 review from my experience using Codex to push to prod @every: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/vibe-check-codex-openai-s-new-coding-agent