While we wait for wisdom, OpenAI releases a research preview of a new software engineering agent called Codex, because they previously released a lightweight open-source coding agent in terminal called Codex CLI and if OpenAI uses non-confusing product names it violates the nonprofit charter. The promise, also reflected in a number of rival coding agents, is to graduate from vibe coding. Why not let the AI do all the work on its own, typically for 1-30 minutes?
The answer is that it's still early days, but already many report this is highly useful.
** Introducing Codex**
Sam Altman: today we are introducing codex.
it is a software engineering agent that runs in the cloud and does tasks for you, like writing a new feature of fixing a bug.
you can run many tasks in parallel.
it is amazing and exciting how much software one [...]
Outline:
(00:43) Introducing Codex
(04:24) System Card Addendum
(06:37) Update to Codex CLI
(07:50) Overall Reception
(09:36) Codex Offers Mundane Utility
(15:25) Codex Doesn't Offer Mundane Utility
(18:36) Our Price Cheap
(20:38) Two Kinds of Agent
First published: May 20th, 2025
Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z8FWLLjLHtKBENMi9/the-codex-of-ultimate-vibing)
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