OpenAI Is Building a 'Persistent' Codex Agent That Works Until Put to Sleep
Wired AI · rss · 2026-08-28
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals OpenAI is developing a feature letting Codex keep working proactively until it is explicitly "put to sleep" — a shift from on-demand coding assistant to an always-on background agent.
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