OpenAI’s Codex AI Agent Now Helps Build Itself
OpenAI has revealed that its AI coding agent, Codex, is now being used to develop itself. According to a statement provided to Ars Technica, “The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex.”
This development represents a significant milestone in AI-assisted software development, where an AI system is capable of contributing to its own improvement and maintenance. The company confirmed this self-referential development approach when discussing its new AI coding agent with the publication.
While OpenAI provided this statement about Codex’s self-development capabilities, the company did not elaborate on the specific technical details of how much of the codebase is AI-generated versus human-written, or what safeguards are in place during this development process.
The news highlights the advancing capabilities of AI coding tools, which are increasingly being deployed not just for external software projects but also for internal development of AI systems themselves. This recursive development approach could potentially accelerate the pace of AI coding tool improvements, though the full implications remain to be seen as the technology continues to evolve.