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OpenAI Codex hands-on review


On May 16th, 2025, I gained access to OpenAI's Codex research preview. Here is what I think

If you maintain dozens of public and private repositories, this setup is fantastic because you can jump between projects and queue up tasks for each of them without leaving the interface. By the time I start work, I tend to have a laundry list of items I want to complete, so initiating a ton of them in parallel via natural language feels like a reasonable interface. This currently blocks the use of Codex for a lot of the tasks that working developers are going to want to use it for, namely resolving annoying dependency issues by installing a more recent version of a package and regenerating the relevant lockfiles in the process.

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