"Generating computer code has emerged as one of the first AI applications making a measurable impact in business. But tools like Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code have evolved far beyond simple code generators. Powered by more capable models, they function more like assistant engineers-able to converse with developers in plain language about a new software project and iteratively develop a plan."
"More importantly, Codex has evolved into an agentic platform, where multiple agents can carry out many of these tasks simultaneously across different pieces of a software project. They can hunt for bugs, for example, while an engineer reviews progress, focuses on another assignment, or steps away for lunch."
OpenAI's Codex AI coding assistant is experiencing significant growth, with weekly active users tripling and overall usage increasing fivefold since the beginning of the year. This expansion is attributed to the release of GPT-5.2 in December and GPT-5.3-Codex in February, along with the launch of Codex's mobile app, which has been downloaded over one million times. More than one million developers now use Codex weekly across all platforms. Modern coding assistants like Codex and Claude Code have evolved beyond simple code generators into agentic platforms functioning as assistant engineers. These tools can converse with developers in plain language, iteratively develop plans, analyze codebases, write and revise code, conduct research, run tests, and produce documentation. Multiple agents can work simultaneously on different project components, enabling parallel task execution while engineers focus elsewhere.
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