Amazon Relents, Lets its Programmers Use OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude
An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism:
In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. “While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support addi … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App
“Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable,” writes Engadget:
OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. These “optional animated companions” don’t do any coding themselves, but serve as a floating overlay that can tell you what Codex is working on, notify you when Codex completes a task or whether it needs your … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Codex System Prompt Includes Explicit Directive To ‘Never Talk About Goblins’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguo … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI’s Big Codex Update Is a Direct Shot At Claude Code
OpenAI is updating Codex with more agent-like capabilities, positioning it as a more direct rival to Anthropic’s Claude Code. Some of the new features include the ability to operate macOS desktop apps, browse the web inside the app, generate images, use new workplace plug-ins, and remember useful context from past tasks. The Verge reports: Codex will now … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Plans Launch of Desktop ‘Superapp’
joshuark shares a report from Neowin: OpenAI is planning to combine its Atlas web browser, ChatGPT app, and Codex coding app into a singular desktop “superapp.” CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, said the company was doubling down on its successful products. By taking this move, the AI company aims to streamline the user experience and reduce fragmentation. Simo said in an internal memo: “We realized … ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral
OpenAI announced it’s acquiring developer tooling startup Astral to strengthen its Codex AI coding assistant, which has over 2 million weekly users and has seen a three-fold increase in user growth since the start of the year. CNBC reports: “Through it all, though, our goal remains the same: to make programming more productive. To build tools that radically change what it … ⌘ Read more
Investigating the Great AI Productivity Divide: Why Are Some Developers 5x Faster?
AI-powered developer tools claim to boost your productivity, doing everything from intelligent auto-complete to (https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/). But the productivity gains users report have been something of a mixed bag. Some groups claim to get 3-5x (or more), productivity boosts, while other devs claim to get no benefit at all—or even losses of up to 19%. I… ⌘ Read more
CodeX is very good at following instructions 👌
How to add MCP Servers to OpenAI’s Codex with Docker MCP Toolkit
AI assistants are changing how we write code, but their true power is unleashed when they can interact with specialized, high-precision tools. OpenAI’s Codex is a formidable coding partner, but what happens when you connect it directly to your running infrastructure? Enter the Docker MCP Toolkit. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolkit acts as a… ⌘ Read more
Living Off the Cloud: Abusing Cloud Services for Red Teaming | Cyber Codex ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Aether Age Codex - Helios, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/03/helios-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Aether Age Codex - Helios, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/07/27/helios-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Aether Age Codex - Helios, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/07/20/helios-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved AI model
We’re thrilled to announce two major updates to GitHub Copilot Code Complete’s AI capabilities that will help developers work even more efficiently and effectively. ⌘ Read more
concept: Codex but fine-tuned on ticket description & diff pairs, for debugging instead of new code.
code for the codex [[https://git.sr.ht/~pbatch/codex]] #codex #updates
the codex is evolving #updates
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/
Book Review: Inventing The Future | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/18/book-review-inventing-the-future/
Too Many People Dare Call It Conspiracy | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-call-it-conspiracy/
GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
Do Neural Nets Dream Of Electric Hobbits? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/18/do-neural-nets-dream-of-electric-hobbits/
RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/
The Economic Perspective On Moral Standards | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/16/the-economic-perspective-on-moral-standards/
Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/
Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/
The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/
Sort By Controversial | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston On Free Energy | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy/
Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/22/cognitive-enhancers-mechanisms-and-tradeoffs/
This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices ‘literary hypertext’. No, that’s just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; that’s why it’s hyper.
Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/
Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/
Powerless Placebos | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/31/powerless-placebos/
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/15/list-of-passages-i-highlighted-in-my-copy-of-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Does Age Bring Wisdom? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/does-age-bring-wisdom/
Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible To Notice | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/07/concept-shaped-holes-can-be-impossible-to-notice/
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
Non-Expert Explanation | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/02/non-expert-explanation/
Postmodernism For Rationalists (my attempt) | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/01/postmodernism-for-rationalists-my-attempt/
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
SSC Journal Club: Serotonin Receptors | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/10/ssc-journal-club-serotonin-receptors/