Experiment: What happens when GPT-2 gets natural-language access to a full Codex agent?
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-06
Mike Frank kicked off a curious experiment: giving GPT-2 — an old, tiny model — natural-language access to a fully fledged Codex agent, to see what it would do. This post marks the first test; results are yet to come, but the premise is a fun probe of agent-vs-model capability gaps.
Related event: Researchers Let GPT-2 Command Codex Agent in Fun Cross-Era Experiment(3 posts)→
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