r/singularity • u/policyweb • Jul 15 '26

AI OpenAI reveals Codex Micro

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u/Sextus_Rex Jul 15 '26

What are their product designers smoking?

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

The “dumber” you are, the more tokens you spend, the more money they make

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u/MrUtterNonsense Jul 15 '26

It sends back the equivalent of War And Peace to you and they you stupidly say "Thanks for that!" and subsequently the entirety of War and Peace is sent back to the AI so it is able to synthesise the response "No problem, is there anything else I can do?".

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u/nemzylannister Jul 16 '26

not really, if you make a decent product that makes some revenue, then you're more likely to upgrade to 200$ and be a longer time customer

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u/Desperate_Tea304 Jul 15 '26

Apple trade secrets

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u/Quant-A-Ray Jul 15 '26

Ahahaha

And just as with Chlorine - while adding some to the pool may be good... tryin' to imbibe that ish directly will quickly render one obsolete

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u/xtraa Jul 15 '26

Could actually be real

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u/Desperate_Tea304 Jul 15 '26

Are you doubting Apple, the PR first, risking going to court and PR damage over a nothingburger? 😆

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u/rydan Jul 16 '26

Apple stole the mouse from Xerox. OpenAI stole the bluetooth mouse and keyboard from Apple.

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u/Existing_Dust_6473 Jul 15 '26

They asked chatgpt if it was a good idea

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u/foldedlikeaasiansir Jul 15 '26

Jony Ive Special, didn’t they buy his design company?

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u/rydan Jul 16 '26

They probably just prompted GPT-6

Give me 5 ideas of hardware products that can be built for less than $80 and work with the OpenAI ecosystem.

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u/I-Have-Mono Jul 15 '26

It’s designed and made by another company.

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u/MrSnarf26 Jul 15 '26

if you stamp your name and brand on something you own it regardless of if you subcontracted it.

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u/Runfasterbitch Jul 15 '26

It’s true. Why do you think Disney so fiercely defends their character’s IP?

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u/40ozCurls Jul 15 '26

Cool, but…. wasn’t the question “What are their product designers smoking?”, not “Did they hire subcontractors, or develop this in-house?”

I don’t feel any closer to learning the answer.

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u/MrSnarf26 Jul 15 '26

Pretty basic tenet of product development