DevOps / SRE / Platform · 04.08.2026, 20:54 UTC
Today’s Codex will feel “primitive” by fall — and its own team’s roadmap backs it up
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| Veröffentlicht | 04.08.2026 UTC |
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Thibault Sottiaux, who leads core products at OpenAI, believes that today’s version of Codex will seem outdated before the year ends.
Sottiaux posted on X late Monday, “Given some of the results I’m seeing recently, it’s pretty clear Codex is a good harness.” He continued, “But it will seem primitive in 2-3 months and we’re about to go through another major evolution in how we use AI at the frontier.” He also said, “The next generation of models need more than your laptop.”
“It will seem primitive in 2-3 months and we’re about to go through another major evolution in how we use AI at the frontier.”
Given some of the results I'm seeing recently, it's pretty clear Codex is a good harness.But it will seem primitive in 2-3 months and we're about to go through another major evolution in how we use AI at the frontier. The next generation of models need more than your laptop.— Tibo (@thsottiaux) August 4, 2026
Sottiaux did not share details about OpenAI’s plans for the coming months. However, his comments are timely since the company is already working to move Codex beyond tasks limited to a developer’s computer. Since launching a new GPT-5 model for Codex in early July and surpassing 8 million users shortly after, the product has been evolving quickly.
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In June, OpenAI said it plans to buy Ona, a company that creates secure cloud development environments. OpenAI called this deal part of the “next phase of Codex,” where agents can keep working in a customer’s cloud even after the laptop that started the job is closed.
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