Every's Deep Dive: How OpenAI Codex Turned Failure Into Victory

Every's Dan Shipper published an in-depth report interviewing OpenAI insiders on how Codex went from a disappointing GPT-5-era launch to powering 40 million weekly active users on ChatGPT desktop, with the author doubling his writing speed using AI agents.

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