codex for computer work is growing very fast
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Skeptical CLI user becomes tribalistic after dogfooding Codex app
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When I joined OpenAI, the codex app was still in its early days of being put together and being a staunch CLI user I was quite sceptical! All of that changed when I started dogfooding the app, and within days started feeling this tribalistic instinct to try and delegate as much
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Coding Agents Need Grep, Not Better Vector Databases
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Coding agents don't need a better vector database. They need grep. Direct Corpus Interaction drops embeddings and lets the agent search raw files with grep, find, cat, and sed, refining each query from what the last one returned. On BrowseComp-Plus: +11.0pp accuracy at $424
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Vibe coding: It’s a real skill, and here are 6 reasons why.
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"Vibe coding isn't a real skill." Anyone who says this is telling on themselves. Hand the same agent to two people. One ships gold, one ships slop. The only variable is the person using it. That's the textbook definition of a skill. 6 arguments to change your mind:
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DeepSWE: New AI coding benchmark corrects errors with 1.4% error rate
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The benchmark ranking AI coding agents was wrong 32% of the time. DeepSWE is a new open benchmark that fixes this. Tasks span 91 real codebases, average 668 lines changed, and are written from scratch so no model has seen the answer. Its error rate: 1.4%.
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Struggling to choose among 1,800 AI developer tools
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I have 1,800 AI developer tools. Can't pick one: https://
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New Codex plugins turn it into role specialists instantly
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We’re making Codex more useful for your work by expanding plugins beyond individual tools. These plugins turn Codex into a specialist for a specific role with a single install, no coding required. Codex can access 62 popular apps and 110 skills for work across sales, data
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Claude Code creates snake game where snake becomes self-aware
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Had Claude Code build a snake game where the snake becomes aware it is in the game and then… stuff happens. Some impressive creative decisions by the AI (& also some very AI ones), I just gave a first prompt and some feedback on the game as it went. https://
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Using Codex to drive OpenClaw: a correction
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it’s the other way around, you can use codex to drive OpenClaw.
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Microsoft Builds Own AI: 7 New Models Trained From Scratch
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🚨Microsoft just stopped renting intelligence and started building their own!
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 3 juin 2026
7 new MAI models. Reasoning. Coding. Image. Voice. Transcription. All trained from scratch. Zero distillation. No third-party model outputs. Just clean data and their own infrastructure.
Their… pic.twitter.com/kilTDSO8lNMicrosoft just stopped renting intelligence and started building their own! 7 new MAI models. Reasoning. Coding. Image. Voice. Transcription. All trained from scratch. Zero distillation. No third-party model outputs. Just clean data and their own infrastructure. Their
