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Source: TechCrunch
Summary
OpenAI has released a new model for its agentic coding tool Codex, designed to accelerate the creation of AI-generated code. The new model is intended to improve the capabilities of the earlier Codex model.
Our Reading
The announcement sounds ambitious.
This new model is supposed to “accelerate” the capabilities of a tool that was already touted as revolutionary. We’ve seen this movie before.
Codex, the agentic coding tool, is still a beta release, but that’s not stopping OpenAI from hyping up its latest iteration.
The new model is build to improve the code creation capabilities of Codex, but we’ve been hearing similar promises for years.
This is just another example of iterative innovation, where the same ideas are rebranded as “progress”.
Codex: because you didn’t know your code was being written by an AI, but now you do.
Original Observation: It’s amazing how often AI-generated code is described as revolutionary, when in reality it’s just a slight improvement on existing tools.
