Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 15 minutes ago
The era of “code assistants” is over. GPT-5-Codex feels less like autocomplete and more like a real teammate.
It doesn’t just suggest snippets—it helps build full projects, refactor massive codebases, and even catch critical bugs during reviews.
It adapts its reasoning: spending almost no compute on trivial fixes but doubling down on complex ones.
That’s what agentic coding looks like.
Available now via CLI (npm i -g @openai/codex) or as a VS Code extension, it runs 90% faster in the cloud thanks to caching and even integrates with image sharing, task tracking, and approval modes. This is the first time an AI coding model feels end-to-end capable of compressing dev cycles into hours, not weeks.
Let me know which AI news you want me to unpack next—I’ll tag you in.
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#GPT5 #Codex #AIcoding
The era of “code assistants” is over. GPT-5-Codex feels less like autocomplete and more like a real teammate.
It doesn’t just suggest snippets—it helps build full projects, refactor massive codebases, and even catch critical bugs during reviews.
It adapts its reasoning: spending almost no compute on trivial fixes but doubling down on complex ones.
That’s what agentic coding looks like.
Available now via CLI (npm i -g @openai/codex) or as a VS Code extension, it runs 90% faster in the cloud thanks to caching and even integrates with image sharing, task tracking, and approval modes. This is the first time an AI coding model feels end-to-end capable of compressing dev cycles into hours, not weeks.
Let me know which AI news you want me to unpack next—I’ll tag you in.
I’m Louis-François, PhD dropout, now CTO & co-founder at Towards AI. Follow me for tomorrow’s no-BS AI roundup 🚀
#GPT5 #Codex #AIcoding
