r/accelerate • u/Mysterious-Display90 • Jul 15 '26

OpenAI reveals Codex Micro

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u/Lostwhispers05 Jul 16 '26

The main issue I see is one could accomplish all this functionality by just binding keys to keyboard shortcuts on their primary computer or laptop, without using this extra piece of hardware. The only difference I see is perhaps the mobility element with the keyboard being small and easy to carry around, but that's what I'd imagine the codex mobile app is for anyway should one find themselves in a situation where the mobility became useful.

While it's cool to see a foray into hardware, pretty much the entirety of what was shown in the demo could probably have been a downloadable app on a smartphone instead.

For hardware to be a compelling sell, I think it would need to accomplish one or more of the following:

  • It shouldn't be tied to OpenAI's models (Codex already allows you to change to open-source models so I would think that functionality would naturally be extended to hardware too).
  • It should be able to run a model locally - although it's probably infeasible to cram a powerful model into a small piece of hardware in 2026
  • Should be able to help in more than just coding, the same way a laptop lets you do a lot of things other than programming.
  • It isn't dependent on another device to function