OpenAI’s $230 Codex keypad adds a dial for reasoning effort

HaktanSuren · x · 2026-07-25

OpenAI’s $230 Codex keypad appears to add a physical dial for controlling reasoning effort.

The joke in the post is that founders have spent years trying to add the same kind of control to sprint planning: a simple knob for how much effort to spend on a task. The image suggests this is being explored as a concrete UI for agentic coding workflows, not just as a model setting hidden in menus.

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