May 4
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Codex from OpenAI isn't just a coding tool anymore. They're adding Gmail, Slack, browser control, computer use, and more. In this video I walk through the newest features and then build and deploy a full website from scratch so you can see how powerful it's gotten with the new GPT 5.5 model. Learn about Claude Code : https://youtu.be/sKBuSaaoN1Y Claude Code vs Codex — full comparison: https://youtu.be/sKBuSaaoN1Y Stay up-to date with all things AI with our powerful daily newsletter: https://nocode.mba/daily OpenAI is clearly pushing Codex beyond code and into productivity — competing more with Claude Cowork and OpenClaw. I walk through what's new, then build an ice cream store website from a single prompt to show you the full workflow from empty folder to live on the internet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN CODEX: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1️⃣ PRODUCTIVITY INTEGRATIONS New buttons to connect Gmail, Slack, and other apps directly from Codex. This is a big shift — they're turning it into more than just a development tool. 2️⃣ GPT 5.5 MODEL OpenAI's most powerful model right now. You can choose thinking levels (extra high, high, medium, low) and speed modes (standard vs fast). Higher thinking = better output but uses more of your rate limits. 3️⃣ PLUGINS Computer use (control Mac apps), browser use (research and debug in an in-app browser), and more integrations coming. 4️⃣ AUTOMATIONS & SKILLS Scheduled tasks to automate work, plus skills that add context the model uses automatically. Most automations are code review focused right now, but expect more productivity automations soon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FULL BUILD + DEPLOY WALKTHROUGH: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5️⃣ BUILDING A WEBSITE FROM ONE PROMPT I start with an empty workspace and prompt Codex to build an ice cream store website. It creates all the files, designs the full site, and renders a live preview right inside the app — no localhost needed. 6️⃣ IN-APP PREVIEW Codex shows a live preview on the right side as it builds. If you're used to Lovable, this will feel familiar. Big quality of life upgrade over running things in the terminal. 7️⃣ DEPLOYING TO THE INTERNET Three paths to go live: → Netlify Drop — drag your folder in, get a live URL instantly → GitHub + Netlify/Vercel — best long-term option → Just ask Codex how — it walks you through every step ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY TAKEAWAYS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 Codex is evolving from a coding tool into a full productivity platform 💡 GPT 5.5 writes great code — but the copy still feels AI-generated (Claude is better at this) 💡 The in-app preview is a huge upgrade over terminal-only tools 💡 Anytime you're stuck, just ask Codex — it'll walk you through it step by step ⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 0:30 New integrations — Gmail, Slack, and more 1:10 GPT 5.5 model and thinking settings 1:50 Plugins — computer use, browser use 2:30 Building a website from scratch 4:15 Previewing inside Codex 5:00 Automations and scheduled tasks 5:45 Skills and custom context 6:10 Reviewing the final website 7:00 How to deploy your site live 8:30 Wrap up #codex #openai #gpt55 #aicoding #claudecode #nocode #vibecoding