Tyler

We actually made some interesting trade-offs.

Having this animation actually slows down how quickly the agent can work by just a tiny bit.

But it means that it's so much easier as a human for me to understand the system and therefore to trust the system.

What do you tell them?

Okay, cool.

Is this person an engineer or are they like a knowledge worker?

Let's say not an engineer because I feel like, well, no, let's do, let's do both.

Okay, start with engineer.

If someone's using Codex for the first time, I just say, download Codex, connect it to your project, whatever you've been working on, and then ask it a question about your code base, like a hard architecture question, and it's just gonna give you an amazing answer.

Then the next thing you do is you say, cool, give it a bug that you've been trying to track down and ask it to solve the bug.

And I hear this all the time on Twitter, etc.

People will be like, hey, I was trying to solve this bug myself, couldn't do it.

I gave it to all the other coding agents, they couldn't do it, but Codex could do it.

And then maybe as a final thing to experience a little bit of the magic that has shipped in the last week or two.

If you're working on something that has a web view, like maybe a website or something like that, ask Codex to make a change, and then watch it just iterate on that change by opening the in-app browser, and sort of observing its outputs, clicking around, and then naturally just fix and improve the change that it made.

It's super magical, because you just realize, when you see it work in that loop, you just realize how powerful it is now.

Okay, so basically, we've had this interesting thing for a long time where people, this is months ago, people would tell us that they knew the codecs were super powerful, but it felt annoying to work with because they had to constantly tell the agent, you can do this, keep going.

So you have this brilliant model, but you have to encourage it constantly.

We then shipped a feature called queuing, which you can use to give the agent a message.

that it will receive whenever it thinks it's done.