“So I've been leaning on GPT 5.4 a lot more this month. Um and OpenAI Codex”
OpenAI Codex
By OpenAI
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“Something I've seen people on Twitter sharing is how good uh OpenAI Codeex especially is at finding really gnarly bugs.”
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