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Since January, usage of OpenAI's Codex has grown by a factor of 6x.
OpenAI's Codex application has over 5 million weekly active users.
Nearly 100% of OpenAI employees, including non-engineers, use the Codex application on a weekly basis.
The Codex team at OpenAI intentionally avoids improving its internal processes in some cases to force themselves to use and improve the Codex product to solve those same problems.
Andrew Ambrosino is confident that the February release of the Codex app would have failed in the market if launched three months earlier in November, with the only significant difference being the underlying model improvements during that period.
Andrew Ambrosino states that 100% of the code in the Codex product is now written by AI.
Initial efforts at OpenAI to integrate Codex-like capabilities into other applications like the ChatGPT desktop app and the Atlas browser were unsuccessful because non-technical users preferred to use the original Codex app.
While being used for video editing, the Codex app autonomously built and installed an extension for Adobe Premiere Pro to enable more direct control over the application.
Andrew Ambrosino stated his intention to make Codex the best desktop app that has ever existed.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replit, Sierra, and Clay are all customers of WorkOS.
OpenAI maintains a simplified codebase version of its main application called "baby Codex" to enable faster prototyping and experimentation.
The Codex organization at OpenAI has experienced more "role collapse," where distinctions between roles like design and engineering are blurred, than other parts of the company.