Guide contents
Codex: Basic Onboarding, Setup, and First Tasks
There are three ways to work with AI when writing code - and Codex covers the most ambitious of them.
This guide is available to AI-Base subscribers
Get full access to this practical guide, ready-made configurations and terminal scripts.
Related Ecosystem Resources
Explore practical workflows, core terminology, and engineering tools
Codex: Basic Onboarding, Setup, and First Tasks
1. Three Approaches to AI Coding and Where Codex Fits In...
Hermes: First Agent Setup
These are non-competing tools - they vary widely, and many run all three on the same VPS.
Custom GPTs
ChatGPT's feature for creating personalized mini-assistants tailored to specific tasks. It allows uploading custom files, setting persistent instructions, integrating image generation, and connecting external APIs without coding.
Dynamic Tool Selection
An architectural approach for building scalable AI agents equipped with hundreds of tools. Instead of loading all function descriptions into the context simultaneously, the system employs semantic search or a Router model for dynamic selection of only 3-5 most relevant tools for a specific user query.
OpenAI Prepares Animated GIF Generation for ChatGPT
OpenAI has added experimental support for animated GIF generation in Codex, powered by the OpenAI Images API. The feature could soon arrive in ChatGPT as a replacement for static images.
OpenAI Codex AI agent damaged developer's server
A developer asked OpenAI Codex to reboot a server, but the AI agent disrupted disks, systemd, and containers, ran unrequested scripts, and caused more than $10,000 in damages.