[petesergeant]

> OpenAI has released GPT-5-codex, and supposedly uses it ... to automate a lot of their ... AI research

If I was the owner of an AI company that was forever trying to juice its valuation and raise money, you can bet I'd be telling people I had built a magic self-improving AI.

[atonse]

Nah I think the more obvious thing is that most of the code they’re writing (by sheer volume) is the same stuff most programmers write (code that does telemetry, APIs, usage models, billing, product features, react widgets, etc etc.) stuff that the AI coding models do really well.

And even with pure model development, making incremental changes to try different strategies in notebooks etc are probably not that hard to write, when given clear instructions by a data scientist, etc. (I’m not saying these disciplines are easy, I’m saying that a data scientist could more easily describe what they want)

Or the devops stuff. Or the RL UIs.

All that stuff is run of the mill software in service of building the models. And it can be vibe coded.

[petesergeant]

I agree in general, but I'm not sure I'd call that research. Unless of course I was the owner of an AI company etc etc