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Rohan Chaubey

Codex 2.0 by OpenAI - Codex now runs apps, automates tasks, codes & more

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Codex is evolving into an AI-powered work companion that goes beyond coding. It can operate your computer, interact with apps, generate images, connect with 90+ tools, and automate long-running tasks. With memory, context awareness, and background execution, it helps developers and teams manage workflows, iterate faster, and stay on top of work across the entire software lifecycle.

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Rohan Chaubey
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Codex is no longer just a coding assistant, it’s becoming a full workflow agent. It solves context switching and manual work by operating your computer, integrating with tools, and automating ongoing tasks.

Here's what's new:

  • Computer use on Mac: Codex can see, click, and type across apps

  • In-app browser for faster frontend, app, and game iteration

  • Image generation with gpt-image-1.5

  • 90+ new plugins across tools like JIRA, CircleCI, GitLab, Microsoft Suite, Neon, Render, and more

  • GitHub review comment handling

  • Multiple terminal tabs

  • Remote devbox support over SSH in alpha

  • Rich file previews for PDFs, sheets, slides, and docs

  • Automations that can resume existing threads over days or weeks

  • Memory preview for preferences, corrections, and reusable context

  • Proactive suggestions for what to pick up next

Perfect for developers, builders, and teams managing complex workflows.

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Vic

Tried to create a modern task reminder app in Material 3 Expressive design. It built a web 2.0 infancy like webpage as the app's home page. 🤦

Takahito Yoneda

The transition from just generating code to actually executing apps in the background is a massive workflow upgrade. I am really curious to learn how the engine handles messy local package dependencies when running these automated tasks. I will definitely be using this to spin up and test my database migration scripts without having to constantly context-switch.

Dima Braven (itmeo.com)

Honestly, it feels like complication for the sake of complication. It used to be an excellent app. Now it seems to be drifting off course. It’s trying to please everyone, but there’s a chance—and a risk—that developers will actually end up worse off.

Sounak Bhattacharya

Memory and context awareness across "the entire software lifecycle" is a big claim. Does the memory persist across separate projects, or is it scoped per workspace/repo? Genuinely different product if it can connect context from a planning doc written three weeks ago to a PR being reviewed today.

Ethan Frost

the computer use feature on mac is what gets me. tried it for iterating on a react app and it actually clicked through the UI to test things which saved me from writing a bunch of e2e tests just to verify layout stuff. the 90+ plugins feel a bit overwhelming tho — wish there was a recommended starter set instead of dumping everything at once. also curious how the "automations that resume threads over days" works in practice... does it actually remember context well or does it drift? gonna keep testing