AI is already having a seismic impact on how software is written, with much of the grunt work of programming now performed by swarms of agents and subagents. But as developers experiment with new interfaces and form factors for human-AI collaboration, it\u2019s become hard for even the most advanced AI labs to keep up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The current trend is for agentic software development \u2014 systems where AI agents can work independently on coding tasks \u2014 epitomized by the Claude Code and Cowork apps. In the meantime, OpenAI has been gradually building out its Codex tool, which launched as a command line tool<\/a> last April and expanded to a web interface<\/a> one month later.<\/p>\n Now OpenAI is taking a major step toward catching up. On Monday, the company launched a new macOS app<\/a> for Codex, integrating many of the agentic practices that have become popular in the past year. The new app is designed to work with multiple agents in parallel, integrating agent skills<\/a> and other state-of-the-art workflows. The launch also comes less than two months after the launch of GPT-5.2-Codex<\/a>, OpenAI\u2019s most powerful coding model, which the company hopes will be enough to tempt over Claude Code users.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you really want to do sophisticated work on something complex, 5.2 is the strongest model by far,\u201d CEO Sam Altman told reporters on a press call. \u201cHowever, it\u2019s been harder to use, so taking that level of model capability and putting it in a more flexible interface, we think is going to matter quite a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n While Altman\u2019s confidence in GPT-5.2 is understandable, coding benchmarks tell a more complicated story. GPT-5.2 does hold the top spot on TerminalBench<\/a> (a test measuring how well AI handles command-line programming tasks), at least as of press time. But agents from Gemini 3 and Claude Opus have logged roughly equivalent scores \u2014 lower, but within the margin of error of the benchmark. Results from SWE-bench<\/a>, another coding benchmark that tests AI\u2019s ability to fix real-world software bugs, are similar, showing no clear advantage for GPT-5.2. However, agentic use cases have been difficult to benchmark effectively, and state-of-the-art models can vary significantly in user experience.<\/p>\n The Codex app also comes with a range of new features that OpenAI says will help it achieve parity or, in some cases, outpace the various Claude apps. The Codex app will allow for automations that can be set to run in the background on an automatic schedule, with results placed in a queue to be reviewed when the user returns. Users can also select different personalities for the agent \u2014 from pragmatic to empathetic \u2014 depending on their working style.<\/p>\n But for the company, the biggest selling point is the sheer speed of development that\u2019s made possible by AI. \u201cYou can use this from a clean sheet of paper, brand new, to make a really quite sophisticated piece of software in a few hours,\u201d Altman said. \u201cAs fast as I can type in new ideas, that is the limit of what can get built.\u201d<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoston, MA
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