How Codex Swallowed ChatGPT: Inside OpenAI's 10-Month Agent Turnaround
This deep-dive traces OpenAI's Codex from a failed cloud launch to becoming the foundation of ChatGPT's desktop app, revealing how Tibo's team pivoted to a local-first, editor-less agent architecture, leveraged reasoning models and bootstrapping, and achieved 40M+ weekly users in months.
