Gergely Orosz visited OpenAI to explore how Codex has become central to the company's operations since January 2026, transforming it into an agentic software factory. The article covers Codex's adoption across departments, changes to engineering practices like the decline of traditional IDEs and pull requests, automated feedback loops for performance optimization, and how the role of software engineers is evolving toward judgment and agency rather than specialization.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, the next generation AI model for professional work scenarios. The model is available through ChatGPT Work, Codex, and API with pricing of $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens.