The Weirdest OpenAI Feature Yet...
OpenAI has added a 'pets' feature to Codex, allowing users to spawn and customize virtual characters that live inside the platform. Users can interact with pets using slash commands and share their creations on a dedicated website. The speaker finds the feature amusing given OpenAI's stated focus on eliminating distractions.
Summary
OpenAI has introduced a playful 'pets' feature inside Codex, which allows users to have small virtual characters inhabit their coding environment. The speaker notes the irony of this lighthearted feature being released alongside OpenAI's messaging about eliminating 'side quests' and staying focused.
Users can interact with their pets using specific slash commands: '/pet' wakes the pet, while '/hatch' allows users to customize the appearance of their pet. The speaker highlights a notable community creation — an 'angry Daario' pet made by a user called Grz or Gru — as a personal favorite example of the creative possibilities.
A community platform at x-petss.net has emerged where users can browse pets created by others and import them into their own Codex environment. The video concludes with a mention of a related resource — an 'AI second brain' tutorial that combines Codex and Obsidian for users wanting to explore deeper Codex capabilities.
Key Insights
- The speaker finds it ironic that OpenAI released a playful pets feature while simultaneously messaging about eliminating 'side quests' and staying focused.
- The pets feature in Codex is controlled via slash commands — '/pet' wakes the pet and '/hatch' allows customization of its appearance.
- The speaker identifies the 'angry Daario' pet created by user Grz/Gru as their favorite community-created pet they've encountered so far.
- A third-party community platform at x-petss.net exists where users can browse and pull other people's custom Codex pets into their own environment.
- The speaker references a separate 'AI second brain' project that leverages both Codex and Obsidian as a way to explore deeper Codex functionality.
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Transcript
[0:00] OpenAI released pets inside of Codeex, which is just like a new little character that sort of lives inside of your codeex. You can see in their demo, it's this little like cloud robot character that they spawned in. It's funny because we're getting all this news from OpenAI about how they're eliminating side quests and then we get like these little pets that live inside of codeex. So, if you use / pet, it'll wake your pet. If you use /hatch, you can actually customize what you want your pet to look like. I've seen some [0:30] pretty interesting pets already. I think my favorite pet that I've come across is this one from Grz or Gru, which…
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