Codex (just announced) is OpenAI’s opening bid to turn software engineering into an asynchronous, multi-agent activity.

Codex appears in ChatGPT’s sidebar as a cloud-hosted agent that spins up an isolated replica of your repo, writes code, runs tests, and submits pull-requests—while you watch a progress log crawl by in real time.

Under the hood is codex-1

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