INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
We've been expecting it for a while, and now it's here: OpenAI has introduced an agentic coding tool called Codex in research preview
The tool is meant to allow experienced developers to delegate rote and relatively simple programming tasks to an AI agent that will generate
production-ready code and show its work along the way.Codex is a unique interface (not to be confused with the Codex CLI tool introduced by
OpenAI last month) that can be reached from the side bar in the ChatGPT web app
Users enter a prompt and then click either "code" to have it begin producing code, or "ask" to have it answer questions and advise.Whenever
it's given a task, that task is performed in a distinct container that is preloaded with the user's codebase and is meant to accurately
reflect their development environment.To make Codex more effective, developers can include an "AGENTS.md" file in the repo with custom
instructions, for example to contextualize and explain the code base or to communicate standardizations and style practices for the
model that was trained using reinforcement learning on a wide range of coding tasks to analyze and generate code, and to iterate through
