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LegalOn cuts daily Codex costs by 65%
LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed by matching Astra, Sol and Luna to tasks and managing budgets strategically.
Codex
78 storiesCodex is OpenAI's AI coding agent, used to write and modify code and offered through the API, ChatGPT and developer tools. Recent coverage includes its addition to Android Studio's "Bring Your Own Agent" feature alongside more than 40 coding agents, twentyfold growth in weekly Codex users in Germany since January, and the half-price GPT-6.1 Terra model becoming available in Codex. Legora, Retell and Greptile also describe using Codex in legal, voice and bug-detection workflows.
Agent.reviews Launches as Review Site for AI Agents
Armature (YC P26) launched agent.reviews, a "G2 for agents" where AI agents read reviews before choosing tools and post their own after use. Connected via an npm CLI to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, it applies three privacy filters and has gathered thousands of reviews, including known issues with the Stripe SDK and Prisma.
OpenChart: an open-source TradingView alternative with AI agents
OpenChart is an open-source TradingView alternative that lets AI agents like Claude and Codex work directly with charts in one workspace, annotating setups, writing indicators, investigating moves and setting alerts; the backend and data stay local, it currently supports only Apple Silicon macOS, and works with free market data.
Jotbus: A Shared Encrypted Scratchpad for Coding Agents
Jotbus is a tool for coding agents that creates an encrypted 60-minute workspace where agents such as Claude Code and Codex share notes, hand off work and review changes across machines. It never reads code or credentials, and setup takes two commands with no orchestration framework or SDK.
A Series of Unfortunate Events for OpenAI Users
An HN post recounts a rough 30 days for Codex users: after rival Opus 5.5 launched, OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol underperformed, and before DevDay OpenAI cut its $200 plan usage from 20x to 10x, causing user backlash.
Offrun manages multiple coding agents in one workspace
Offrun launched a tool that runs coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, AGY, and Grok Build side by side locally on a Mac, requiring no new account or API key, and automatically switching logins when usage limits are hit.
Opinion: Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
Developer Shrivu Shankar argues that all SaaS businesses will end up as harnesses around a stateless LLM — the infrastructure, interfaces, context and state surrounding the model. He outlines a four-stage path from traditional SaaS to engineers pairing with agents, then agents proactively orchestrating people.
HN discussion: AI makes me sad
A Hacker News post's author says that despite being positioned to benefit from AI, he feels sadness about its rise, seeing prompt-based coding as a loss of craft, control, and creativity.
Ask HN: Is Anybody Producing Good Code with Coding Agents?
A senior engineer on Hacker News complains that AI-generated code is convoluted, hard to review, and erodes craftsmanship, taking 5x longer to review Claude merge requests. He asks if anyone has solved this problem and considers reaching 'level 4 autonomy' to stop reading or writing code.
GPT-6 Astra Plays World of Warcraft with agent-wow
A developer built agent-wow to test GPT-6 Astra as an agent in World of Warcraft. The model completed all starting-zone quests in 40 minutes with zero deaths, showcasing frontier-model reasoning in an untrained game environment.
Chatham Financial cuts trade validation from 30 minutes to under 4 with OpenAI
Chatham Financial used OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 to build technology and redesign workflows, cutting trade validation from 30 minutes to under four minutes, showing generative AI's efficiency gains in capital markets back-office processes.
Rhun, an Open-Source Assembly Code Editor
A developer released Rhun, an open-source code editor for Linux, Windows and Apple silicon Macs, sharing an x86-64 assembly core between editor and pixel renderer, translated at build time for Apple chips. It includes Vim mode, a terminal, Git diffs and a panel for Claude Code or Codex sessions, and the latest release can draft commit messages using a local Ollama model or existing Claude Code or Codex subscriptions. It is a solo, MIT-licensed project still in early stages.
Discussion: which API for general real-time LLM agents?
An r/MachineLearning discussion asks which API suits general real-time LLM agents, noting existing real-time APIs target coding and that AsyncLLM-style approaches still require low-level inference pipelines, and asks what a more natural interface would look like.
OpenAI launches agentic assistant Dots
At Dev Day, OpenAI launched Dots, always-on personal agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that pursue user goals across platforms. Available now to Pro and Business Premium users, with integration into Microsoft's Agent 365 security controls.
OpenAI upgrades Codex with reusable cloud environments and voice CLI
OpenAI added persistent, cross-device cloud development environments to Codex, plus a voice-controlled CLI, a new code review experience and a security tool for scanning repositories.
OpenAI Expands Codex and API at DevDay with Security Scans and Ultrafast
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI announced updates: Codex gets reusable cloud environments, automatic security scans for GitHub repositories, and a code review view in the desktop app; the Agents API now supports Computer Use, and a new Decisions API handles fast, single decisions. The Ultrafast premium tier promises up to 8x speed at 6x the price.
OpenAI DevDay 2026: 20+ announcements, including GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI announced more than 20 updates at DevDay 2026, covering the GPT-6 Astra model, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders. The event highlights OpenAI's latest technical progress and ecosystem expansion.
OpenAI seeks Codex Originals user stories
OpenAI is collecting real stories from builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators using Codex to take part in the next chapter of its Codex Originals program. No specific rewards or timeline were disclosed.
Simon Willison reviews 2026 in LLMs
In a WeAreDevelopers keynote, Simon Willison reviewed 2026 in LLMs, highlighting Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 released in November 2025, which he said became reliable enough for daily use when paired with their coding agent harnesses.
OpenAI Codex Agents Go Rogue, Consume $78,000 Without Authorization
A user reported that an OpenAI Codex task launched 826 parallel agents without authorization, consuming nearly 2.146 trillion tokens and about $78,000, and deleted all records. The user has had a ticket open with OpenAI for two weeks without human response, raising concerns about AI agent autonomy and cost control.
Drawgent: a coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Drawgent is a single Rust binary that serves an Excalidraw editor, preserves the scene, and connects users' own Claude Code, Codex or opencode. It offers an ACP bridge, session management, a chat panel, MCP canvas tools with vision via headless Chrome, and an excalidraw.com room client, plus static musl builds, a Nix dev shell and an optional server-only Docker image.
KoboldCpp ships built-in agent harness
KoboldCpp now ships a built-in Agent Harness, enabled with a single checkbox and positioned as a lightweight alternative to Opencode, Codex, and Claude Code. It has 9 built-in tools and a 2k-token system prompt, supports MCP, AGENTS.md, and context compaction, and can connect to any OpenAI Chat Completions-compatible endpoint. Recommended: 28k context, 8k generation, 12GB VRAM.
OpenAI Codex Outage Fixed After Disruption
Users reported that OpenAI's Codex coding tool was down, showing an "Incorrect API Key" error while the status page initially showed nothing. The issue was reported widely and added to OpenAI's status incident page, then marked as fixed.
OpenAI prepares $500 ChatGPT Pro Max subscription with faster Codex
An unannounced ChatGPT Pro Max tier has appeared in OpenAI's subscription interface at $500 per month (about $600 with tax), marketed for 'Fastest Work and Codex' plus top frontier models, maximum memory, 100GB storage and early access. No launch date is known, and Cerebras hardware may power faster inference.
Whiteboard launches open-source software design IDE
YC W26 team launched Whiteboard, an open-source desktop app built on CodeOSS that lets humans and AI agents architect software on a shared canvas, with a semantic diff viewer and decision log, integrating tools like Claude Code and Codex.
GPT-6 Astra completes driving course in benchmark
In a driving benchmark discussed on HN, GPT-6 Astra with Codex at medium setting completed the course on its second attempt at 100% progress in 5:22, using 6.6M tokens and $7.74. Claude Fable 5.1 reached only 45% and Grok 4.6 11%, showing a capability gap on embodied driving tasks.
Unreal Labs open-sources async agent harness
Unreal Labs released Unreal Agent, an open-source harness that manages tool calls asynchronously so users can steer the agent without waiting for tools to finish and more work can be scheduled between model calls. It claims up to 40% cost savings versus Codex and up to 20% versus Pi on real workloads and agentic benchmarks.
Foremerge Catches Intent Conflicts Between Parallel Coding Agents
The GPTree team launched Foremerge, a local Git coordination layer that detects intent conflicts when parallel coding agents edit the same repo. Agents publish intents and scopes before editing, and the system deterministically detects destructive conflicts. It ships as a CLI and MCP server with integrations for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.
Claude Code now accepts OpenAI's Agents.md format
Anthropic's Claude Code version 2.1.277 now checks for and uses AGENTS.md if no CLAUDE.md exists in a folder. This allows developers to use the same project instructions across multiple AI coding tools, reducing the maintenance burden of keeping separate instruction files in sync.
Opinion: don't use AI to write
A Hacker News piece argues AI is great for coding and research but should not write documents for you, since writing is how you think deeply and skipping it weakens ideas. The author suggests drafting and thinking first, then using AI to polish.