Codex Draws Using Microsoft Paint
dfinke · x · 2026-07-17
The author prompted Codex to open Microsoft Paint and "draw the seed of life and randomly color the parts," resulting in a fun, shareable demo.
The focus of this post isn't a new feature release, but a highly visual demonstration of agentic AI: the model directly driving a desktop application to complete a drawing task.
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