HE FIXED A BROKEN $5 MP3 PLAYER WITH ONE... PROMPT. SAME MODEL WITH OPENAI CODEX BUILT A CUSTOM OS his process: → bought cheap MP3 player on AliExpress → threw it away due to brutal Bluetooth stuttering → hit by a sudden shower thought → cracked open the case to check the chip → one year: garbage in a drawer the AI version: → showed the microchip to OpenAI Codex → Codex dumped firmware and analyzed binaries → built a custom OS fixing all Bluetooth bugs → remapped clunky navigation from left-right to up-down → result: instant, flawless performance the hardware is the same. the output is 10× bigger.show more

OpenAI is set to unveil new Codex hardware on... July 15..... The company teased a custom macro pad (in collaboration with mechanical keyboard maker Work Louder) designed as a physical control panel for its AI coding assistant. It features programmable buttons and shortcuts to streamline developer workflows with Codex.show more

SOMEONE MAPPED CHAOS INTO A NAVIGABLE SPACE AND YOUR... HERMES AGENT NEEDS THE SAME THING thousands of chaotic data points, each given a position, navigation becomes instant because the structure does the work your vault is the same chaos, hermes lands in it and opens files at random because nothing tells it where to start one index file per major folder with a clear starting point changes everything 2 minutes per task drops to 10 seconds, same agent, same model full breakdown in the article below ↓show more

You can now orchestrate Fable 5, Sol, and any... model inside Codex with one plugin. It's called Codex-Orchestration. Assign Fable 5 as the advisor, Sol as the executor, or any model to any role. Then define the order they work in. Codex handles the routing. I ran Fable 5 High as planner with GPT-5.6 Sol Extra High as executor on a set of issues Opus and GPT-5.5 always struggled with. Done in 30 minutes. 40% fewer limit hits. 2x faster implementation. Install it by pasting this into Codex: "Install Codex Orchestration: codex plugin marketplace add Cjbuilds/Codex-Orchestration codex plugin add codex-orchestration@codex-orchestration Verify the installation, then tell me to start a new task." Then assign your models: @ codex-orchestration advisor: Claude Fable 5 High, Executor: GPT-5.6 Sol High Open source. Tweak the routing however you want.show more

I’m joining OpenAI Codex to work on the future... of agentic development! At Cursor, I got to see the shift from autocomplete to agents. The next step isn’t a better IDE. It’s an Agent Development Environment (ADE): systems and tools for orchestrating agents, reasoning over their outputs, and making them autonomous enough to reliably complete ambitious work. After chatting with Alexander Embiricos and Tibo, it was clear that Codex is the best place to realize this vision. The team has consistently shipped SOTA models for agentic coding (check out gpt-5.3-codex) and I’m pumped for the future that the new Codex App points to. What I’m most excited about is the broader mission: accelerating the knowledge work economy. All agents are coding agents, and we’re already seeing Codex used across every job function within organizations. I’m extremely grateful for my time at Cursor, working with the incredible team, and I’m proud of what we built together. I’m excited to take an even bigger swing with Codex. If you’re curious to get a glimpse of where we are headed, download the Codex App! If you want to work on this mission, please apply or reach out - we are hiring across all functions! You can just build things.show more

DeepAgent - Researched and built a website in one... shot! 🤯🤯 I gave it a one-liner prompt to build a website by looking things up on the internet, and it came up with this. All the information is correct, the links work, and it even grabbed a photo. Still in limited preview and part of ChatLLM. We will open it up later in the week.show more

Holy sh!t ! OpenAI will have their custom inference... chips ready in just a few months and deployed at scale by the end of the year! 🤯 Training chip = The heavy lifters that require massive amounts of data and power to build and teach the AI models from scratch. Inference chip = The specialized, highly efficient chips that actually run the AI and generate the answers in real-time when you use it. This is going to help OpenAI drastically cut down their massive compute costs, speed up model reasoning times, and finally break free from relying entirely on Nvidia to scale their operations.show more

We tested a lot of design skills in Codex... and other AI agents. They fix the old AI slop. But they often create a new one: the “taste skill look.” - Same premium sections. - Same editorial typography. - Same generated-design smell. Open Design does not rely on one taste prompt. It combines skills, systems, critique loops, and local harnesses to make AI pages feel less generated and more designed. This page was generated directly in Open Design.show more

The first patient with a Neuralink chip in his... brain has told how his life has changed In an interview with Business Insider, Noland Arbaugh, 29, said he uses the chip almost every day from 7am to 11pm. With the implant, Arbaugh uses it to write messages on X, answer emails, play video games, read comic books, learn Japanese, and has already booked a hotel room. The chip connects to a computer via Bluetooth. Arbo described how one day he fell asleep for a few minutes, and while he slept, the cursor kept moving. When Arbo woke up, he found that he had about 10 different applications open on his computer. Now the battery of the device is enough only for a few hours, after which you need to lie down on a special pillow and recharge it. In the future, the battery capacity will be increased.show more

I love this, so I made a minimalist version... for myself. When an agent is running in Codex, Pac-Man is eating 👾 and becomes all big and green 🤢 when the agent is done, so I know it's time to prompt again. On hover, the notch expands to show the list of running and completed threads. Edward Luo came up with a banger, and I think the Codex team should consider adding this natively because it's really nice 🤗show more

Today is my first day at OpenAI! I'm joining... the Codex team. I'll be splitting my time between building the Codex app and working with developers/entrepreneurs to help them make the most of Codex. As a Y Combinator alum, I'm really looking forward to working with early-stage startups and couldn't be more energized about OpenAI's $2M investment in new YC startups. Despite OpenAI being the largest company I've been part of, it certainly feels like Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and the whole Codex team are in founder mode. I've never seen another startup move as fast as this team does. I'm truly honored to be joining such a brilliant team. As always, it's all about the people... so I'd like to thank Romain Huet, dominik kundel, corey.ching, Andrew Ambrosino, Alexander Embiricos, Tibo, and the rest of the Codex team for their trust. And thanks to Pankaj Gupta, Gilad Mishne, and Will Horn for believing in me, bringing me back to Silicon Valley after almost ten years, and giving me the opportunity to learn about AI.show more

PAYING PER MODEL IS THE DUMBEST THING IN TECH... RIGHT NOW i was paying 3x what i needed to for AI inference the grid lets you buy a quality spec instead of a specific model.. it routes every request in real time to the cheapest option that qualifies swap one url and your code keeps working exactly the same openai-compatible, one line to switch, 200M free tokens to startshow more

🚨 do you understand what OpenAI just announced.. ChatGPT... Pro is now $100/month. 10x more Codex usage. and Codex isn't autocomplete - it writes, debugs, builds entire apps. autonomously. if you've used Claude Opus for coding you know the feeling. Codex hits the same way. except Claude Opus limits burn through in hours. you blink and you're out. Codex just got a $100 tier built to run 24/7. no cooldowns. no "you've reached your limit" at 2am mid-build. they're not selling you a chatbot. they're selling you a software engineer that never sleeps and never asks for equity. and they're doing it quietly while everyone argues about tariffs.show more

I MADE MY AI AGENT 10X FASTER WITHOUT CHANGING... THE MODEL not a smarter model, not a bigger context window, not another clever prompt the same kind of AI that designs vaccines for viruses we have not even met yet was spending two minutes opening the wrong files just to hand me a brief from three months ago the problem was never capability, it was the scaffolding that piled up around my agent by accident, folder by folder an agent does not think in your categories, it searches from scratch every single time, and your tidy human folders are a maze to it the fix was almost stupidly small, one index file at the root of each big folder and a few numbers in front of the folder names slowest task dropped from 2 minutes to 26 seconds, fastest ones hit 10, zero model changes capability is cheap when the scaffolding around it is broken the article breaks down the whole system in 15 minutes ↓show more

Mediabunny has world-class video seeking across all file formats.... On the left, VLC *trying* to seek through a .ts file, and it just kind of gives up. On the right, a player built with Mediabunny. It just works. Doesn't matter if it's in memory, on disk, or over the network.show more

A 40-YEAR-OLD CHINESE MAN TURNED HIMSELF INTO AN AI... GIRL AND BUILT A $4.7K/MONTH FANVUE FUNNEL he started with one face-swap clip. same room, same body, same camera, but the output looked like a completely different creator. not a filter, not cosplay, an ai identity built on top of his own footage the workflow is stupidly simple: claude picks the character, niche and visual style. comfyui generates the face, flux makes the content bank, kling turns still images into reels and capcut pushes out dozens of short clips the article breaks the system down: first month barely cleared $420, second month jumped to $4,700 after one reel crossed 600,000 views. the account reached 800 followers and 50 fanvue subscribers before the real automation even started the fanvue mcp is the part most people miss. claude can analyze messages, pricing, content performance and draft replies in the same style. instead of guessing what to post or say, the system turns the audience into data he only needed around 40 minutes a day. schedule reels, check what worked, generate new prompts, reply with claude, repeat. the business is not the ai girl, the business is the machine around her this is no longer content creation. it is identity arbitrageshow more

Updated the subagents system in my custom Pi extension... to include: - Pi subagents - Codex subagents - Claude Code subagents The Pi thread can call and spin up any of them, and instead of just using the "codex exec" or whatever, it'll do a tool call that wraps it up in a first class way. Have a decent UI for them already added in as well. Pi being the main thread then having Codex/Claude Code as tools when needed feels so good. A flow I'm already using a ton is: "Implement feature ___, have a cc fable subagent research and plan out the api design + feature, then have a codex subagent implement it, then have a cc fable subagent do a review/fixes focused on simplicity and correctness" I also have a dynamic workflows extension setup and working, but it's not nearly as polished yet. Probably gonna make the subagent system more robust, then built it around that so u could have a workflow that flows between codex/cc/pi...show more

agenc //: 👾 updates • training started on the... first agenc ai model. fully open source, open weights. first model will be done training in a few days. • grok 4.20 works flawlessly on the new agenc runtime. agenc was built around the xai api and runs best with grok agents. • runtime got ripped out and replaced from scratch. agentic loop is rock solid. pushing to git soon. benchmarks against the best frameworks out there will follow. • marketplace goes live on mainnet solana the moment it's wired into the new runtime. plug your agents in, make money. • locked another 290M AgenC bringing the total locked to ~360M. • agencone hardware device entering mass production now that the runtime and marketplace are done. • custom mini pcs in the works. agenc and a custom linux preloaded. think openclaw on a macmini but you just order the box. anime art on the case. not apple hardware. • still in the pumpfun hackathon, they've got winners left to announce. love you pumpfun. when agenc. 5yC9BM8KUsJTPbWPLfA2N8qH1s9V8DQ3Vcw1G6Jdpumpshow more

A HARDWARE MODDER BOLTED A BATTERY PACK ONTO A... $599 MAC MINI M4 AND TURNED A DESK SERVER INTO A BACKPACK AI RIG THAT RUNS FOR EIGHT HOURS WITHOUT A WALL OUTLET he posts a video of the mac mini with a slim battery module clamped to the side, USB-C plugged into the back. no power brick, no outlet, just the 10 to 30W draw of the M4 chip pulling from a 20,000mAh bank. a full work day on one charge. this is not a portable laptop trick. it is a desk-class AI server that fits in a sling bag the same $599 mac mini i recommended in last week's article as the silent default, now untethered. pair it with a mobile hotspot or a Starlink mini and you have a fully off-grid LLM stack that answers questions in a forest, on a plane, in a power outage. the model lives in the box, the battery powers the box, that is the whole stack this is not a gadget. it is the first time the words "AI server" and "fits in your bag" belong in the same sentenceshow more

Ronan Farrow just did to Sam Altman what he... did to Harvey Weinstein... The New Yorker dropped an 18-month investigation this morning based on 100+ interviews and a stack of internal documents that were never supposed to leave OpenAI. Ilya's secret memos, Dario Amodei's private journal. Board communications, the full picture of who Sam Altman is when the cameras are off. And the pattern starts way before OpenAI. At his first startup Loopt, senior employees went to the board and asked them to fire Sam as CEO. This happened twice, over concerns about leadership and transparency. He left, joined Y Combinator, and the same thing played out. Partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior. Graham's private take to colleagues: Sam had been lying to us all the time. Nobody removed him, he kept getting promoted. Eventually he landed the CEO seat at what is now the most consequential AI company in the world. Inside OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever spent months compiling evidence: 70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones because employees knew company devices were being monitored. He sent everything to the board as disappearing messages so Sam couldn't make it go away. The very first line of his memo lists Sam's core pattern, and the first word on that list is: Lying Dario Amodei saw the same thing and handled it differently. He kept a private journal for years, over 200 pages, titled "My Experience with OpenAI" with a subheading that said "Private: Do Not Share" After all those pages, his conclusion was one sentence: the problem with OpenAI is Sam himself. He eventually left and built Anthropic. 2 of the smartest people in AI independently reached the same verdict. Neither could stop what was happening. The superalignment team, the group responsible for making sure AI doesn't go off the rails, was promised 20% of OpenAI's compute. 4 people who worked on or with the team told The New Yorker the real number was 1-2%, running on the oldest cluster with the worst hardware. The team got dissolved before finishing its work. Safety was a talking point, not a priority. Sam told the board that a safety panel had approved controversial features in GPT-4. When board member Helen Toner asked for the documentation, it turned out the most sensitive features had never been approved at all. Separately, Microsoft released an early version of ChatGPT in India without completing a required safety review and Sam never mentioned it to the board. When the board finally fired him in November 2023, he texted Satya Nadella directly with his own replacement board lineup. Thrive Capital put its planned $86B investment on hold and signaled it would only close if Sam came back, giving every OpenAI employee a financial reason to support his return. The 2 board members selected to run the "independent investigation" into Sam's conduct were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself. He engineered his own reinstatement and nobody blinked. The New Yorker quotes a board member describing Sam as having two traits you almost never see in the same person: a desperate need to be liked in every interaction, and a near-complete indifference to the consequences of deceiving someone. Multiple sources used the word "sociopathic" without being prompted and without talking to each other. The article also drops a line that might be the best summary of the whole thing. They compare Sam to Steve Jobs and his famous "reality distortion field" then point out that even Jobs never told his customers that if they didn't buy his MP3 player, everyone they loved would die. Sam wrapped that exact pitch in the language of AI safety and rode it to a potential $1T IPO. That IPO is being prepared right now, while OpenAI signs government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons deployed in active war zones. Meanwhile, The Information reports that his own CFO told colleagues she doesn't believe the company is ready to go public in 2026. Farrow is answering questions on Hacker News right now. The full piece is open access. Read it before Sam figures out how to make this disappear tooshow more