Codex

includes Codex Sites, Codex CLI, Codex 5.5, Codex Desktop, Codex Web

30 statements across 15 episodes · 27 bullish · 2 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Nov 3, 2025 by Greg Isenberg · said 83 times in 17 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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brought up most by Greg Isenberg (27), Riley Brown (22), Remy Gaskill (3), Dan Shipper (3), Theo Tabah (1), Ross Mike (1), Cody Schneider (1), Billy Howell (1)

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2026 69 mentions in 15 episodes 5 per episode
2025 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode

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Everything said about Codex, oldest first

Nov 3, 2025 positive
Opinion
Greg Isenberg calls OpenAI Codex slightly worse than Cursor but most improved
“My take on Codex is it's a bit, yeah, it's a little worse than Cursor, But it's gains like the most most improved award.”
Greg Isenberg Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 16:10 The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
Dec 22, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Isenberg: OpenAI Quietly Launched Skills Support for Codex
“Quietly, OpenAI has launched skills. So we've seen Anthropic and Claude skills. A lot of people talking about that, including myself, how amazing it is. But quietly, we have Codex now officially supports skills.”
Greg Isenberg Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 0:40 OpenAI Releases ChatGPT AI Agent Skills
Jan 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Alex Finn uses Claude Opus for reasoning and Codex for coding
“You want to use the right muscles, and what I mean by that is I think of Opus as the brain. You want to use other models as the muscles. Codex is a really good muscle for coding for this, and so set up Codex inside your CloudBot.”
Alex Finn Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 13:42 Clawdbot/OpenClaw Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
Feb 6, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Claude Opus 4.6 creates agent teams while Codex requires direct reasoning prompts
“When I'm talking to Opus, I can tell Opus, build me a team, and here's what I want each member of the team to do. When I'm talking to Codex, I can't really tell it to build me a team, but I can tell it to think about stuff.”
Morgan Linton Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 15:57 Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex
Feb 6, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GPT-5.3 Codex generated a functional Polymarket competitor in under four minutes
“So Codex built a competitor to Polymarket in three minutes and 47 seconds.”
Morgan Linton Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 22:17 Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex
Feb 6, 2026 positive
Opinion
Claude Opus 4.6 beat GPT-5.3 Codex in a head-to-head coding test
“I mean, I would say, you know, like I said, I'm not going to say which one is, it's not that Opus is better than Codex or vice versa, but I would say in this test, Opus won.”
Morgan Linton Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 45:07 Claude Opus 4.6 vs GPT-5.3 Codex
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Schneider delegates manual keyboard execution to AI agents like Claude Code
“Basically everything that used to be the middle work that we would do, like all of anything that I would do to touch the keyboard, I'm now passing it on to some type of agent harness whether it's Claude code or it's codex or any of these tools. And so my job s…”
Cody Schneider Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 3:00 Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Opinion
Gaskill: Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity are secure by default
“So, by default, Antigravity, Cloud Code, and Codex, they're very, very secure because they're built by these massive companies that have a lot on the line to protect.”
Remy Gaskill Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 9:03 Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
Mar 17, 2026 positive
Opinion
Gaskill: Claude Code displays agent loops best among major harnesses
“I think Claude code does the best job of actually displaying that loop and allowing you to see what it's thought about compared to anti-gravity and codex, but it's all just going through the same sort of loop process that I described earlier.”
Remy Gaskill Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 11:19 Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Riley Brown: OpenAI consolidated efforts to integrate Atlas browser inside Codex
“Well, recently they had like this big red alert at their company, and they decided to kind of push all of their efforts into one single app, which was Codex. And now what they're doing is they're just putting Atlas inside. They're basically putting Atlas insid…”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 13:02 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brown: A startup building an AI video editor in Codex will make a killing
“I'm sure there's going to be a company that only builds, like, an AI video editor like ReMotion that shows up inside Codex, and they're going to make a killing, right?”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 51:41 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Brown: Codex autonomously built and played its own chess game
“And so, in my video, it did this in one prompt. I said, build a chess game, then use browser use to test the game and play yourself until one team wins. And that's what it did in one shot”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 42:40 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Opinion
Brown: Codex beats Claude Desktop by unifying coding and coworking tools
“Another way that I like to think about this is Claude code or this codex is like Claude code and co-work in a single product, but it's even better than that. And the reason why I like it more than Claude desktop is Claude made a decision to split up co-work an…”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 7:54 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Brown: Codex can generate complete working mobile apps from one prompt
“For this, for now, you still need to have a Mac, and you need to have Xcode downloaded, but it can one-shot mobile apps, like full mobile apps.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 59:25 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brown: Claude and Codex Subscriptions Provide Thousands in Subsidized Tokens
“Like, in Claude or in Codex is you just save so much money because they're subsidizing, like, you get thousands of dollars of tokens for your a hundred dollar per month or 200 dollar per month plan because you're using their platforms.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 44:01 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Riley Brown: Codex is the only platform combining vibe coding and knowledge work
“It is the only interface that does vibe coding and knowledge work in one platform.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 10:44 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brown: GPT Image 2 is undeniably the best image model in the world
“Codex has GBT image two, which is the best image model in the world. And again, this is not like up for debate. I'm not, again, I'm really not trying to show anything.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 49:01 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brown: OpenAI's Codex is the most powerful interface for AI agents
“People are going to learn how to use the best interface to use AI agents, in my opinion. I think Codex by OpenAI, and that means if you have a ChatGPT subscription, you have access to Codex, which I think is the most powerful way to use AI agents”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 1:02 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
May 4, 2026 bearish
Insight
Isenberg: Traditional user interfaces are disappearing as AI environments replace apps
“The UI is going away. And, like, I don't know about you, but I'm spending more and more of my time in codex. I'm spending more and more of my time in cloud code. Like, those have become my operating systems. So I'm spending less and less time in apps, and it's…”
Greg Isenberg May 4, 2026 ▶ 27:27 AI Agents run my business and life (Andrew Wilkinson)
May 6, 2026 positive
Insight
To: design.md creates portable design memory across AI tools
“I like to think of design.md like a design memory, and this is great because it can transfer between platform. So, if you're working in lovable, and you like what you've done, or in cloud design, and then you want to move it to Figma, or you want to move it to…”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 16:03 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Isenberg: Codex is more technical than Lovable or Replit, but more valuable
“Codex It does feel a little more technical than your lovable or your replet or your bolt. But if you can stay with it the output I think is super, super valuable.”
Greg Isenberg Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 12:39 OpenAI Codex: Build Apps That Work For You 24/7
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Shipper: GPT-5.6 with Codex is best model for knowledge work
“Codex with five, six, which I find to be the most usable, most powerful, fastest model for, specifically for knowledge work and for coding, but like specifically for knowledge work”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 2:36 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Dan Shipper: Codex Chronicle captures local screenshots for user context
“Like, one of the interesting things about Codex is it has this thing called Chronicle, which is it automatically takes screenshots of your computer and locally turns it into locally turns it into a, Feed that gives it context on who you are and what you're doi…”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 41:51 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Insight
Shipper: Agent-native SaaS restores traditional software margins without token costs
“In this world, you're just a SaaS provider. You're just hosting software. So there's no token costs. And so your margins are back to being like regular, a regular software business instead of being an AI business, which I think is great.”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 27:12 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Opinion
Shipper: Anthropic's Claude and Opus remain ahead in visual product design
“I would go to Claude for the actual design, and then port it back in here, because I still think that Claude has a better sense, especially Fable, RIP. But even, even four eight would be better at this. And I think for a product like this, being able to see it…”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 30:51 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Dan Shipper: Codex plugin converts recorded screen actions into automated skills
“And the way it works is you can just you just start it by saying, can you just watch me do this? And it will record your screen as you do a task and then turn that automatically into a skill to do it in the future.”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 43:24 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 24, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Carson warns against building workflows on frontier models to avoid lock-in
“Like, if you are, if your whole engineering you know, motion is happening inside of clock code or inside of codex, What are you doing? Like, because they are not incentivized to make it reasonable for you long term, right? They're going to lock you into their …”
Ryan Carson Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 36:59 Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
Aug 12, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Miller: Building a basic AI workforce puts users in top 0.5%
“Of all AI users, if you look at the percentage of people who are paid AI users, and if you look at the percentage of those who are using things like Codex or Cloud Code, it is minuscule. So already, if you're just trying to be in the top, like, one percent of …”
Ali K. Miller Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 25:16 My top secrets to running an AI Agent Workforce
Sep 2, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Isenberg: Phone Harness controls iOS and Android devices without jailbreaking
“Phone harness connects an agent like Codex or Cloud Code to a real iPhone or Android. Super cool, right? For iPhone, it uses Mac iPhone mirroring, and for Android, it uses ADB, so you don't have to, like, jailbreak it”
Greg Isenberg Sep 2, 2026 ▶ 19:29 5 GitHub Repos: Kill AI Slop, Go Viral, Make Money
Sep 10, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Ross Mike: GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's priciest model, priced similarly to Fable
“OpenAI's most expensive model. It's on par with Fable in terms of pricing, but if you have a codec subscription, very subsidized, and not only that, it's also very efficient, meaning it doesn't take as many steps to complete a task.”
Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:57 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It
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