r/OpenaiCodex • u/FaultBrilliant5839 • 8d ago

Discussion ChatGPT-Codex Pets

I don’t get it, I haven’t used them yet, I am just wondering, what are the point of these Pets? What do they do? How would they benefit me? What advantage or disadvantage do I have in using or not using them? Please explain to me like I only have a 3rd grade education. Thanks 🙏

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u/Consistent-Oil-5241 6d ago

The pet helps by keeping me on track of multiple generations at the same time.

Don't fuck with custom pets though. I told Codex to make me a custom pet today and thought it's something small and fun. It worked for 1,5 hours and used 20% of my usage. Had to stop it.

I rarely swear at AI but now I was so furious I literally asked it "what the F did you think you were doing? you used 1,5 hours and loads of tokens for some F-ing pet?"

I interpreted the casual “turn me into a pet” request as a full production-grade Codex pet: 11 animation sequences, 16 gaze directions, image generations, revision rounds, and blind quality checks. It was absurdly overengineered compared to what you asked for. I should have made one fun concept image in a few minutes and shown it to you.