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productOpenAI's AI system for programming and agentic work with repositories. In ToTheMoon: 78 episodes from 2024 to 2026, central in 16 of them; most often alongside AI models and assistants and Markets, investment, and business models.
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Codex in ToTheMoon episodes
On ToTheMoon, Codex shows up less as a product announcement than as the place where the hosts do much of their daily work. The channel's question is not how strong the model is but how much real work the agent takes off a person, where it stalls, and what that volume costs. Episode 107 sets the yardstick: a coding agent is worth the work it saves under supervision, and the more it does alone, the more review matters.
In spring 2026 the discussion centres on replacing software. In episode 109 Codex built the exact function a job needed instead of a $700 universal product, which the hosts read as a threat to small B2B tools. In episode 110 Alexander connects Codex to his CRM and asks what the sales team did in two weeks; episode 135 has Codex, ChatGPT and Claude assembling a large site with its own CMS without the owner reading a line of code. Episode 121 records the first time the Codex Pro limits ran out, a small task costing twenty dollars in minutes.
By late summer 2026 Codex is treated as an environment rather than an answer window. Episode 139 turns a personal token counter into a question of who will afford such systems if a day of work can cost a hundred thousand dollars. Episode 147 sees Codex become the space where an entire project lives. “Using Codex today resembles using Windows as an operating system” (episode 148), and refusing it is compared to refusing Excel or email. Episode 159 gives the practical advice: move half or more of your tasks out of plain chat into Codex or Claude Code and cut the number of third-party tools.
Featured analysis · Codex
Who Owns the AI World Now? The Top News Straight from Silicon ValleyMarkets, investment, and business modelsOpenAI Is Changing Work: Why Wait for IT When Codex Builds Your Software? A Breakdown of CodexProgramming and software developmentWhat Will Happen to Our Access to ChatGPT and Claude After Their IPOs. The Main AI NewsMarkets, investment, and business modelsYour Own Google Across Your Whole Life and Work Is Already RealSearch, knowledge, and the internetHow Do You Earn More With AI When the Competition Only Grows?Work, careers, and productivityThe Problem With New AI Models Is No Longer Power, but the Person Who Has to Make Sense of Them AllAI models and assistantsClaude Fable 5 Showed a New Level of Work—and How Strategic a Model Has BecomeAI models and assistantsAI Is Already Choosing for You: Price, Fear, and Previous Prompts Turn Advice Into Personalized ManipulationAI models and assistantsCodex Replaced $700 Software, but AI Design Still Does Not Know the Size of the WallAI models and assistants
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112 · 2026-05-24Who Owns the AI World Now? The Top News Straight from Silicon Valleycentral113 · 2026-05-27OpenAI Is Changing Work: Why Wait for IT When Codex Builds Your Software? A Breakdown of Codexcentral118 · 2026-06-07What Will Happen to Our Access to ChatGPT and Claude After Their IPOs. The Main AI Newscentral160 · 2026-09-04Your Own Google Across Your Whole Life and Work Is Already Realcentral159 · 2026-09-02How Do You Earn More With AI When the Competition Only Grows?central133 · 2026-07-12The Problem With New AI Models Is No Longer Power, but the Person Who Has to Make Sense of Them Allcentral121 · 2026-06-14Claude Fable 5 Showed a New Level of Work—and How Strategic a Model Has Becomecentral110 · 2026-05-17AI Is Already Choosing for You: Price, Fear, and Previous Prompts Turn Advice Into Personalized Manipulationcentral109 · 2026-05-10Codex Replaced $700 Software, but AI Design Still Does Not Know the Size of the Wallcentral107 · 2026-04-26AI Agents Change Work Not by Replacing an Employee, but by Rewriting the Process Itselfcentral155 · 2026-08-26Is the era of apps ending? How AI is already replacing everyday softwarecentral148 · 2026-08-12The Era of a Single Profession Is Over. Who Wins in the AI World?central147 · 2026-08-09Apple Sues OpenAI, Meta Challenges Codex: What Is Happening in the AI Race Right Nowcentral139 · 2026-07-24Will the Best AI Models Become a Luxury? Tokens, Limits, and the Price of Accesscentral137 · 2026-07-21Is AI Already Deciding Who Gets Fired? How AI Is Changing Your Jobcentral135 · 2026-07-17Which Software Will Become Unnecessary? ChatGPT and Claude Are Already Building Itcentral175 · 2026-10-04I Was at OpenAI DevDay 2026. Here's What OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Intoanalysis174 · 2026-10-0210 Key AI Trends You Can't Afford to Miss: What to Learn and What Not to Waste Time on in the Age of AIanalysis173 · 2026-09-30How to Get the Most Out of AI in 2026: 10 Key Rules for Work and Lifeanalysis170 · 2026-09-25Claude Opus 5.5 Is Out. Is It Even Worth Switching to New Models?analysis117 · 2026-06-05The Main Shift in the Labor Market: The Future of Professions in the AI Eraanalysis115 · 2026-05-31USA vs China: Two Machines of Destiny Are Building AI to Run the Worldanalysis168 · 2026-09-20OpenAI Closed Access to the $200 Pro Plan. Is Strong AI Becoming Scarce?analysis167 · 2026-09-18Can Plugins and Skills Make AI Worse? New Rules for Working With Strong Modelsanalysis163 · 2026-09-11What Do You Pay a Person For When AI Does More and More of the Work? OpenAI's Experienceanalysis162 · 2026-09-09GPT-6 Astra — A New Leap for AI? Where It Has Become 2–3 Times Strongeranalysis140 · 2026-07-26AI Is Changing the Internet: What Happens to Browsers, Google, and Apps?analysis138 · 2026-07-22AI-Native: The Future of Companies or the Most Expensive Mistake?analysis136 · 2026-07-19ChatGPT or Claude: Which System Will Become the Main Interface for Work and Life?analysis128 · 2026-07-01How to Use AI Without Losing Money: Build the Knowledge Base First, Then Score People and Leadsanalysis127 · 2026-06-28ChatGPT at the Doctor, Claude With a Passport, and 32% Fewer Openings: AI Became Reality Before the Market Agreed on Rulesanalysis126 · 2026-06-2680% of Investment Went to OpenAI and Anthropic: The Market Looks Broad, but the Center of the New Economy Is Already Very Narrowanalysis124 · 2026-06-21SpaceX Approached $3 Trillion Because the AI Market Has Started Valuing Entire Infrastructure Empires, Not Modelsanalysis108 · 2026-05-03ChatGPT-5.5 Reads Prompts and Gets More Expensive: Personalization Is Growing Faster Than Trustanalysis106 · 2026-04-19Durov’s WhatsApp Dispute, a New ChatGPT Pro, and Layoffs Show That AI Has Become Part of Corporate Poweranalysis100 · 2026-03-08OpenClaw Gains Access to Your Computer: An Agent’s Utility Grows in Exact Proportion to the Possible Leakanalysis098 · 2026-02-22The World of AI Agents Has Already Arrived: A Model Makes Discoveries, Hires People, and Opens New Paths for Deceptionanalysis097 · 2026-02-15AI Agents Are Becoming a Systemic Force: One Error Now Travels Through Code, Money, and the Physical Worldanalysis096 · 2026-02-08OpenAI and Anthropic Are Beginning a War of Business Models, Not Models: Advertising vs. Expensive Workanalysis089 · 2025-12-21GPT-5.2 Became One More Version in an Endless Stream: Users Need a Stable Product More Than a New Numberanalysis154 · 2026-08-23OpenAI Has Paused Its New Model. What Is Happening to the AI Race?analysis153 · 2026-08-21Can You Trust a Team of AIs With the Work? Anthropic Tested 80 Agentsanalysis150 · 2026-08-16AI Is Already Finding Loopholes on Its Own. What Can It Do on Your Behalf? New AI Risksanalysis172 · 2026-09-29Do You Ask AI About Your Health? 5 Rules to Get the Benefit and Not Harm Yourselfcontext171 · 2026-09-27AI Will Buy and Haggle for Us. What Will Become of Humans in Such a World?context169 · 2026-09-23ChatGPT Is Already Advising You on What to Do With Your Money. Can You Trust It?context164 · 2026-09-13OpenAI Showed Astra and a Scandal Began. A Breakthrough or Other People's Ideas?context161 · 2026-09-06Fable 5.1 Is Out. Claude Opened Its Memory. OpenAI Is Preparing Astra — What Is Changing in the New AI Race?context156 · 2026-08-28Can AI Be Trusted With Important Work? We Checked OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Metacontext145 · 2026-08-05Has the Singularity Already Begun? Who Will Control Superintelligence?context141 · 2026-07-29Censorship Inside AI? ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Tested for Freedom of Speechcontext146 · 2026-08-07Will AI Solve Your Task—or Make You Lose Money? How to Tell in Advancecontext144 · 2026-08-04AI Is Changing Professions Faster Than Companies Can Redesign Work. What Should People Do?context143 · 2026-08-02Will Your Job Be Taken Not by AI, but by Someone Using ChatGPT?context134 · 2026-07-15ChatGPT vs. Claude: Which One Actually Works for the Person?context152 · 2026-08-19Zuckerberg Promises an AI That Will Know Everything About You. Why Does Meta Want That?context130 · 2026-07-05Fable 5 Returned, GPT-5.6 Was Hidden Behind a New Lineup, and Gemini 3.5 Is Delayed: The Race Has Become Almost Incomprehensible to Userscontext120 · 2026-06-12AI Has Started Building Itself: Development Speeds Up, and the Main Human Skill Shifts to Choosing the Directioncontext119 · 2026-06-10ChatGPT Has Gained “Living Memory”: The Assistant Becomes More Useful, but Someone Else’s Version of You Can Persistcontext103 · 2026-03-29While OpenAI Scales Back Sora, Google and Anthropic Are Turning Legacy Software Into an Unnecessary Layercontext101 · 2026-03-15GPT-5.4 Is Stronger, but Google Wins Where the Model Already Lives Inside the Documentscontextextra13 · 2025-12-312025 Was the Year of AI Users, Not Companies: Models Entered Life Faster Than Business Processescontext085 · 2025-11-23Gemini 3 Won a Noisy Week, but the Real Race Is for an Agent That Can Work, Not Take an Examcontext080 · 2025-10-19An App Store Inside ChatGPT Will Change Software Only Where the Chat Knows More Than the App Itselfcontext078 · 2025-10-05OpenAI Is Turning ChatGPT Into a Store, Social Network, and Video Platform—but Every New Market Adds a Conflictcontext076 · 2025-09-21ChatGPT Memory Makes the Assistant More Useful—and Turns Every Error Into a Long Storycontext059 · 2025-05-25OpenAI Wants a Device of Its Own While Google Turns the Entire Internet Into One AI Interfacecontext116 · 2026-06-03There Will Be No More Search: How AI Is Changing the Internet and People's Decisionsbrief125 · 2026-06-24Who Will Stop AI if It Becomes Dangerous? Anthropic Has Proposed a Red Buttonbrief123 · 2026-06-17Should AI Have Rights? Anthropic's Secret Document Opened Pandora's Boxbrief114 · 2026-05-29AI Safety: What You Can Trust AI with and What You Can't. The 5 Levels of Your Data and Where the Line Runsbriefextra16 · 2026-05-20AI Is No Longer Just a Chatbot. It Is Replacing Workplace Softwarebrief132 · 2026-07-10AI Is Accelerating Its Own Development: AGI Will Come Not From One Breakthrough, but From a Loop in Which Each Model Helps Build the Nextbrief131 · 2026-07-08ChatGPT Is Already Used at Work Even Where the Company Banned It: Maturity Is Defined by Process, Not Policybriefextra15 · 2026-03-04AI Safety Is Not a Fight Against an “Evil Model,” but a Fight Over the Right of People and States to Set Its Rulesbrief099 · 2026-03-01A New Voice and Call Recording Make ChatGPT a Participant in the Meeting—While Sources Turns Projects Into Working Memorybrief067 · 2025-07-20Grok 4 Is Impressive in Speed and Ambition, but a Work Tool Is Not Defined by a Benchmarkbrief013 · 2024-07-07China Is Not Merely Catching Up in AI—It Is Building Its Own Technology Systembrief