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OpenAI Launches an Agentic, Web-Based Coding Tool


With vibe coding all the rage, OpenAI says Codex can take on more development chores in a safe and explainable way.

A key challenge with vibe-coding is that delegating to AI can result in software that is opaque and more difficult for a person to understand and fix when bugs creep in. OpenAI says the model behind Codex has been trained to explain what it is doing more clearly and help developers fix what they are building, and that the use of a virtual computer makes the system safer by design. Josh Tobin, who leads the agents research team at OpenAI, says Codex reflects a bigger vision for ChatGPT to evolve from a chatbot into a teammate.

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