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OpenAI Codex Update Adds Computer Use, Image Generation, and Memory on Mac

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OpenAI is making several updates to its Codex AI coding agent. Codex is now able to operate desktop Mac apps with its own cursor, seeing what's on the screen, clicking, and typing to complete tasks.

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Codex can run multiple agents on the Mac in parallel, without interfering with the user's own work. OpenAI says developers will find it useful for testing apps, iterating on frontend changes, and more. Codex can now remember preferences, recurring workflows, tech stacks, and other information about each user's personal workflow. With automation improvements, Codex is able to resume work after a pause using existing conversation threads, and it can schedule future work for itself and work on a task across days or weeks. Codex also proposes work using context from projects, memory, and connected plugins.

There is an in-app browser for Codex that allows users to comment directly on pages to provide more precise instructions to the agent. In the future, Codex will get full use of the browser for opening websites, working through user flows, taking screenshots, and inspecting outputs.

Codex has been updated to use gpt-image-1.5 for generating images in the app, which OpenAI says is helpful for creating visuals for product concepts and mockups. Codex now includes support for multiple terminal tabs, addressing GitHub review comments, and opening files directly in the sidebar with rich previews for documents like PDFs and spreadsheets.

Along with these changes, Codex has over 90 new plugins that can combine skills, app integrations, and MCP servers to improve Codex's context gathering and actions.

The updates to Codex are rolling out today to Codex desktop users signed in with ChatGPT. The personalization features are not yet available to Enterprise, Education, EU, and UK users, but will be rolling out soon. Computer use is also not yet available in the EU or the UK.

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Sounds like parity with Claude features. Nice! Competition good etc etc.

MCP and its derivatives have been transformational in my life, both professionally and privately. There’s a future on the horizon of broad integrations of systems thats effectively not been able to talk together, and it’s very enticing (for those of us leaning into AI).
 
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Do not fall for this “computer use” trap.

It’s a way to make you give your job away completely and erode your privacy at the same time.

At some point it will be a third world worker using your computer and you will think it is “AI”.

No they will not compensate you for it. Free money doesn’t exist. Nothing is free. You will simply be discarded and pushed slowly out of existence.
 
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At this point they are trying hard to have return on investment, the automated testing part of software is a compelling selling point for many but not I so, try again guys.
 
If there was some way that this could be done locally, then maybe I'd be interested. But OpenAI literally controlling my machine doesn't sound like something I'm interested in... Notification from OpenAI: "Good news! We just hit superintelligence and it's in your machine now. It just auctioned off your testicles and has several bids on your retinas. [Thinking...] And you just bought a farm in rural Kazakhstan. [Thinking...] You're also wanted for manslaughter in Ireland. [Thinking...] Oh, and you've exceeded your token limit and have a balance of $63,047.32. Thanks!"
 
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JMalone said:
Do not fall for this “computer use” trap.

It’s a way to make you give your job away completely and erode your privacy at the same time.

At some point it will be a third world worker using your computer and you will think it is “AI”.

No they will not compensate you for it. Free money doesn’t exist. Nothing is free. You will simply be discarded and pushed slowly out of existence.
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What on earth are you talking about?

Why do you think a ‘third world worker’ or any worker (not sure why their location is important) would ever have anything to do with this?
 
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buckwheet said:
If there was some way that this could be done locally, then maybe I'd be interested. But OpenAI literally controlling my machine doesn't sound like something I'm interested in... Notification from OpenAI: "Good news! We just hit superintelligence and it's in your machine now. It just auctioned off your testicles and has several bids on your retinas. [Thinking...] And you just bought a farm in rural Kazakhstan. [Thinking...] You're also wanted for manslaughter in Ireland. [Thinking...] Oh, and you've exceeded your token limit and have a balance of $63,047.32. Thanks!"
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OpenAI don’t literally control your computer. An LLM does, and you choose where in your computer and how it takes actions.
 
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delsoul said:
Again. Anything with Scam Altman involved is a NO GO. I won’t touch anything associated with him or the brand. Are they finally turning a profit yet, or are they still losing billions and being propped up by shady money from shadowy figures?
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I guess I’m not the only one who trusts Altman even less than Zuckerberg…
 
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