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“The Codex of Ultimate Vibing” by Zvi


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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 [...]

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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

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First published:

May 20th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/z8FWLLjLHtKBENMi9/the-codex-of-ultimate-vibing

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