ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. OpenAI’s next “low-key research preview” has arrived. This time, it’s not ChatGPT, but a coding agent dubbed Codex that is being made available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team subscribers starting Friday. By drumming up comparisons to how ChatGPT was first described, CEO Sam Altman and other company leaders are positioning Codex as the company’s next major product. It doesn’t cost extra to use for now, though OpenAI plans to eventually charge for access once it gets a sense of demand. The goal for Codex is to make ChatGPT a “virtual coworker” for engineers, Josh Tobin, OpenAI’s research lead for agents, said during a press call I attended this week. Like other vibe coding tools, Codex generates code from natural language. It can act independently on sandboxed code to fix bugs, run tests, and suggest changes to how code should run in the real world. This process can ... Read full article.