OpenAI Codex Gains Internet Access: First Impressions

What on Earth is Codex?

Good question, right? The thing is, until recently, OpenAI had a model called Codex, which was used as the foundation for autocompletion in GitHub Copilot. Then, OpenAI released a console agent for development, which they named, so no one would get confused, Codex. Everyone had a laugh at OpenAI’s naming skills , and life went on. Until the fateful day when a tweet like this appeared from Sam Altman: