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How Codex Happened: inside OpenAI's coding-agent comeback
Oct 15 Every deep dive (Shipper + six OpenAI interviews): Cloud flop → Rust local agent → no-editor desktop app → ChatGPT merge; learnable arc on form-factor bets, separate model lines, and agent-native UX.
CodexChatGPT desktopGPT-5.x Codex+1