I Snagged OpenAI's Sold-Out Vibe-Coding Gadget: Here's What the Codex Micro Can Do
In just a few short years, we've gone from marveling at chatbots that could hold a convincing conversation to agents and coding tools used to accelerate software development throughout the tech world. AI power users have embraced vibe coding and multi-agent workflows, and those evolving tools call for evolving interfaces. OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Work, a task-completion agent, and merged the standalone Codex app into the ChatGPT desktop app.
- ▪In just a few short years, we've gone from marveling at chatbots that could hold a convincing conversation to agents and coding tools used to accelerate software development throughout the tech world.
- ▪AI power users have embraced vibe coding and multi-agent workflows, and those evolving tools call for evolving interfaces.
- ▪OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT Work, a task-completion agent, and merged the standalone Codex app into the ChatGPT desktop app.
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In just a few short years, we've gone from marveling at chatbots that could hold a convincing conversation to agents and coding tools used to accelerate software development throughout the tech world. AI power users have embraced vibe coding and multi-agent workflows, and those evolving tools call for evolving interfaces. Here comes the Codex Micro ($230), a dedicated keypad made for the vibe coder era, with programmable macro keys and built-in functions to seamlessly coordinate multiple AI workflows and agentic tools at once.Born from a collaboration between OpenAI and Work Louder, a peripheral maker best known for making retrofuturistic mechanical keyboards, the Codex Micro is a curious device.
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