OpenAI just rolled out Codex-1 — a neural network that doesn’t just write code, but organizes a meetup for a whole team of AI agents in your browser. Spoiler: your team leader is already nervously smoking on the sidelines.
1. Codex-1 vs Old Codex: Why 2021 is Crying in the Corner
What blows your mind:
- Parallel tasks like in Marvel: you can fix bugs, write new code and test API at the same time. It’s like juggling 5 laptops, but without the coffee burns.
- 192k context tokens is like putting Lord of the Rings into an AI’s brain and asking it to make a spoiler version.
- Run the code in the browser: Test until Chrome offers to install a monument to your endurance.
Quote from OpenAI: “Codex-1 generates patches that you wouldn’t be ashamed to show to a human. The old Codex spit out code like a student after a night of Red Bull.”
2. Killer modes: GitHub integration and “Cloud slave”
Lifehack from a hypothetical Igor:
- Connect to GitHub — Codex-1 will become your personal DevOps ghost. Let it merge pull requests while you watch cats on TikTok.
- Sandboxed environments – even if the AI blows up the code, your browser will stay alive. At most, a sad smiley in the console.
3. The Dark Side: Where the AI Team Goes Wrong
- Overwriting: May remove your code “for beauty’s sake”. Like a designer who threw out a sofa because it “wasn’t in the palette”.
- Love of Complexity: Generates nested loops that only Stephen Hawking would understand. Or his AI reincarnation.
- Speed ≠ Quality: Complex tasks in 30 minutes – how to order pizza during the apocalypse. Fast, but with surprises.
4. Results: Is it worth letting the AI brigade into your sacred repository?
Take if:
- You want the code review to be done by an algorithm, not a colleague with a morning hangover.
- Do you dream of editing 10 files in parallel, like Neo from The Matrix?
Do not take if:
- You are afraid that Codex-1 will demand a salary in ETH and a share in the startup.
The main question: Are you ready to become a manager for an AI team? Write in the comments – let’s discuss!
P.S. As soon as I test Codex-1 in battle, I’ll tell you everything in Telegram . Save the post: when the neural network starts writing code for colonizing Mars, you’ll be the first.