OpenAI's coding agent: give it a task and it works through the repository, running in ChatGPT, the terminal or the cloud.
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About OpenAI Codex
What it is
Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. You describe a task rather than a line of code, and it plans, edits across files, runs the code and comes back with a change to review. It runs in ChatGPT, from a command line, and in cloud environments where several agents can work on different branches at once.
Why it's different
The difference from autocomplete is that the unit of work is a task, not a keystroke, and the difference from earlier agents is the parallel cloud worktrees: several jobs can run while you do something else. The cost is that reviewing agent output is now the bottleneck, and a confidently wrong refactor takes longer to unpick than it would have taken to write. It is strongest on well-covered, well-scoped work and weakest where the codebase is the only documentation.
How people use it
Routine pull requests, migrations and repetitive refactors. Writing tests against code that already works. Picking up a ticket end to end while you review something else. Give it a task with a clear finish line and a way to check itself, because an agent with no test to run has no way to know it is wrong.
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