OpenAI Codex

part of OpenAI includes OpenAI Codex Sites

11 statements across 3 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2025 by Ben Tossell · said 318 times in 36 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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2025 91 mentions in 6 episodes 15 per episode

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May 21, 2025 negative
Opinion
Text-to-app AI builders like Bolt create polished UIs with broken features
“I just think generally text to app builders are over building everything or completely setting everything up as an overbuilt tool. But actually all the features are under, under built. So if you ask for like a Shopify, a Spotify clone with Bolt, it'll spit out…”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 13:02 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tossell: Codex Ask Feature Lacks Live Internet Access
“And it can do it and it, but it's more connected to, it's not connected to the internet. So it's like, I'm just looking at your repo and answering based on what it has, what knowledge it has to give you that response.”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 23:23 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Task-based AI tools are better for beginners than text-to-app builders
“I kind of feel like this is a better place to start than a text app builder, because like I said, it's going to build a big fancy thing. And what you're going to end up in is like seeing a bunch of terminology code being written tests failing. They're all to d…”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 34:12 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI coding agents will eventually fully automate GitHub pull request workflows
“I just think you start here and you can think, well, at some point the, like the PR stuff, that's going to be automated. Like, I'm sure you can get bots now that if there's a successful pull request, it'll just merge it to the main branch. So like, you never h…”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 14:55 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Tossell: Codex cannot process uploaded files, images, or UI mockups
“Because the thing you can't do in codecs, so there's some limitations here, obviously, like you can't upload any files. You can't upload any images. You can't say make the UI look like this.”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 20:55 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
May 21, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tossell updated his live website via AI with five button clicks
“We've opened the task, we've merged it, we've closed it works on my site. I did no coding, and I did Maybe like four or five button pushes to do this.”
Ben Tossell May 21, 2025 ▶ 16:56 ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
Apr 27, 2026 neutral
Insight
Brown: AI toolmakers are converging on folder-and-thread agent interfaces
“All of these companies are deciding that this is kind of the correct interface to interact with AI agents.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 6:34 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Riley Brown: Execute AI tasks once before turning them into automations
“This is how I normally set up automations. People sometimes want to create an automation before they do it. It's just like do it once and then tell the agent to do that every time on this day. And that's a kind of a good workflow.”
Riley Brown Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 30:31 Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Dan Shipper: People Underestimate Codex's Multi-Agent Orchestration
“I think that people are sleeping on how, Flexible and powerful of a tool this is. Because, okay, so it's got the image model in it, and then it also has the ability, like it has the ability to change other threads. So, like, I can have this thread message anot…”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 10:04 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 9, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Dan Shipper uses Codex Goal Mode for 20-hour autonomous training runs
“I'm training a model to do copy edits. And this goal is four hours, it's been going for four hours, and I just like let it go, but four hours is honestly very short, like I, over the weekend I had one or two that went for like 20 hours each, and so it's just a…”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 22:40 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dan Shipper: Users can feed video into Codex to recreate apps
“But honestly, you can literally just feed this video into codex and just be like, make something like this and it will do that.”
Dan Shipper Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 5:02 GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it.
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