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OpenAI just shipped an AI whose only job is to babysit another AI and decide if it's allowed to keep working. Codex's "auto-review" runs a separate guardian sub-agent alongside the main coding agent. Every time the main agent tries to execute a command outside the sandbox, the guardian evaluates the risk in context and either approves it or escalates to you. The human never sees the routine approvals. You only get pulled in when the guardian flags something genuinely dangerous. The problem this solves is approval fatigue, and every coding agent has it. Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf. The more capable the agent, the more actions it needs to take outside the sandbox, the more it interrupts you. Studies on alert fatigue in medicine show the pattern: the 47th approval prompt gets the same reflexive "yes" as the 3rd, regardless of risk. The safety mechanism stops being safe the moment humans stop reading it. Claude Code attacked this from the other direction. Trust settings, auto-accept modes, permission scoping. You configure the guardrails up front, and the agent runs within them. OpenAI's approach is different: the guardrails are themselves an AI that evaluates each action against what the agent is actually trying to accomplish. Both approaches reveal the same constraint. The human-in-the-loop was always a temporary architecture. At 5 approvals per session, a human adds genuine safety. At 40 approvals per session, a human adds latency and rubber stamps. The math on human attention doesn't scale with agent capability. This is where all of agentic coding lands within 12 months. The agent does the work. A second system reviews the work. The human reviews the output. Three layers. And the one shrinking fastest is the human layer in the middle.

GPT 5.5 pro might be the first model to legitimately resolve IMO P6. details: GPT 5.5 pro and Claude 4.7 opus are the only models capable of resolving IMO P6. Given Claude 4.7 was able to resolve it, I was more inclined to believe this is due to contamination. However, the model says its knowledge cutoff is August 2025 while Claude's is Jan 2026. IMO 2025 ended at the end of July, so with an august knowledge cutoff of early August, the answers likely did not make it in. Furthermore, I asked 5.5 about the biggest news headlines of August 2025 and it didn't seem to remember anything early august, so the cutoff may be right at the end of July. An Argument for GPT 5.5 pro is that it does not mention the IMO problem anywhere in its thinking. Opus 4.7 mentions the exact problem: @j_dekoninck @SebastienBubeck

Pro tip: Don't buy extra tokens for your $200/month Codex 5.5 plan. Have a personal $20/month plan. Switch to it during the 2 hour cooldown periods. I am using latest xhigh model, and never bought tokens and never waited. And I do big refactorings regularly.

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Codex can't add to or edit Figma files the way Claude can, I think I've discovered why, and it's a fixable bug. The issue is that while Codex and Claude can read Figma files via the Figma connector, Codex can't add to or edit Figma files. This is strange, because Claude can do it, and does it well. I've traced the issue to a mismatch between actions the Figma plugin DOCUMENTS and actions the ChatGPT Figma connector (at least in Enterprise) EXPOSES. The plugin tells Codex to use use_figma, create_new_file, and search_design_system. These actions are not available in the ChatGPT Figma connector to approve! They are available in the Claude Figma connector. I'm not sure if the ChatGPT/Codex team or Figma need to address this, but right now it's a glaring gap for me between Codex and Claude that inhibits workflows that include Figma.

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We have been testing GPT 5.5 on the hardest spreadsheet tasks in the world (100k-1M+ cell complex models). It is the Pareto frontier for spreadsheets -- SOTA accuracy, the fastest and the most efficient public model across effort levels. OAI really cooked here

Set Codex to this and never look back. Medium reasoning effort is good enough for me for ~anything I need to do now.

openai's product execution & velocity has stepped up noticeably, & the tone feels more human again. it felt corporate for a while in the middle. w/ the recent releases incl 5.5 you can feel the real focus & polish showing through again. credit where it's due cuz the work on agents & codex is game changing stuff for the broader economy. comms feels tighter & again much more relatable. something changed. they clearly took the feedback to heart. begs the question, is openai pivoting away from consumer stuff? or at least it's p1 instead of p0 now. that would be a big shift.

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As models get smarter, contradictions in your codebase and prompts are becoming more expensive The more contradictions there are, the more the model needs a reason to identify under what circumstances the rules you lay out make sense. It's kind of like when I talk to my girlfriend. You said this, but you also said that, so I don't know what to do in this situation ..

Efficiency isn't just about speed anymore — it's about the massive reduction in the cost of intelligence. NVIDIA and @OpenAI's partnership leverages the GB200 NVL72 to deliver a 35x reduction in token costs, bringing enterprise-grade AI to an unprecedented scale. Trained and served on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, GPT-5.5 delivers the sustained performance required for execution-heavy, multi-step work — and at NVIDIA, that means teams are now scaling human ingenuity with OpenAI Codex Agents.

Memory on Claude Managed Agents is now in public beta. Your agents can now learn from every session, using an intelligence-optimized memory layer that balances performance with flexibility.

Pleased to announce that we've made @sentry slightly denser, and cleaned up the layout.

This feels like the fastest new model rollout from OpenAI

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GPT-5.5 beats Opus 4.7 on several benchmarks, esp those related to agentic coding + tool calling. It's also pretty damn close to Claude Mythos... Even beats Mythos on Terminal-Bench 2.0. However, GPT-5.5 is far more token efficient than Opus 4.7. OpenAI cooked this Spud 🥔.

@laurasideral sleeek, wow, amazing

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