OpenAI's coding agent, including the non-coding jobs people give it.
OpenAI's coding agent, including the non-coding jobs people give it.
A solo founder uses ~16 Claude and Codex agents for lead research, cold emails, CRM upkeep, SEO content and call prep, and says it found and qualified a first pilot customer.
A commenter had Codex do fundamental architecture work for their game, reading engine docs and implementing better animation merging.
An engineer built a Codex agent that browses eBay listings, extracts PSA certificate numbers and cross-references known prices while he sleeps.
InstantDB had Codex, Opus, and Gemini each try to build a multiplayer shooter.
A travel advisor had Codex use client notes to recommend a Belmond hotel in Italy, checking live booking engines and generating a detailed Word doc.
One developer's build log of an almost fully self-hosted, sandboxed agentic pipeline for producing software.
A Claude Code plugin that reviews pull requests in stages with sub-agents and validation passes, with optional ensemble review via Codex.
Agents publish planned changes before editing so conflicting architecture changes across parallel worktrees get flagged before code is written.
Codex made a racing game with multiple racers, eight maps and items from one prompt, acting as designer, developer and QA tester by playing it.
The author leaves Codex CLI running for hours to add debug prints and test hypotheses against a reproducing unit test, often only to find the bug.
Claire had Codex research hotels, map them on Google Maps and deploy a trip site from her phone; its browser also navigated to checkout for an item.
The author had Codex CLI read a design spec and iterated on it to design his personal site, and he can reuse the spec on other projects.
Claude Code wrote scripts parsing QuickBooks and bank statements, and Codex reviewed the code and caught errors like a wrong Schedule L mapping.
Codex CLI over SSH found the OOM killer in kernel logs on a 2 GB droplet with no swap and listed fixes by risk without changing anything.
A guide sets up a Codex automation that reads project files on a schedule and emails a weekly summary via the Gmail plugin.
A scheduled Codex automation reviews analytics and SEO notes each morning, picks five safe fixes like internal links and metadata, and applies them.
The author has kept books for several Swedish companies using Claude Code and Codex, which read receipts, matched bank rows, posted entries and caught a VAT error before filing.
An MCP server that lets Codex drive Ableton Live, used to write and mix a full song from chat messages.