An Animated Stacky and Codex Pets

AI Humor

Another Free AI Model

tsoding wrote:

YouTube Studio added an LLM integration for whatever reason. I literally don't see any use case for it so I'm using it as a general purpose clanker why not.

It’s really amusing to me to see all of these companies adding AI to their products only to have people use them for general purpose reasons completely unrelated to what that company is trying to sell.

Isn’t that Unsafe?

Ben Burke wrote:

My doctor’s been getting into AI recently. He told me “I’ve been vibe coding an app to handle patient records for me, it’s saving me a bunch of time.” I said doc should you be doing that? Isn’t that unsafe? He said well it’s not too safe for someone your size to be eating so many burgers but that doesn’t seem to be stopping you!

OpenAI’s History of Feature Bait

Studio Ghibli Style

In the past, OpenAI has succeeded in spiking user growth not only by creating compelling features, but actively looking the other way (and sometimes encouraging) users to abuse the new features.

When they introduced Image Generation they did so by exploiting the way copyright law works in Japan. They did this by allowing users to create images inspired by Studio Ghibli’s art style. This resulted in people recreating memes:

And even selfies (yes, at one time I had facial hair):

Sora

When OpenAI launched Sora they looked the other way as their users created videos using copyrighted material. Eventually they did curtail the practice but there were several weeks when users were free to create anything.

That Time I was Voted Off the Island

I posted the video on Substack Notes. You can see it by clicking this link.

Codex Limits

Their current strategy involves frequently resetting usage limits for Codex. This not only generates good will among their users, but it also puts pressure on Anthropic because of how severely compute strained they are.

VraserX e/acc wrote:

At this point OpenAI is just trolling Anthropic. Codex rate limits get reset so often it feels like a loyalty program. Meanwhile Claude Code users are out here budgeting prompts like canned food in a bunker.

Kitze wrote:

i was about to buy a third gpt sub but i played this card instead

Tomorrow OpenAI is throwing a party to celebrate the release of ChatGPT 5.5 and speculation is that they will reset usage limits for Codex during that event. So, if you have a big project you’ve thought about tackling and want to burn through some tokens, now might be a good time.

Codex has Pets

The newest onboarding hook OpenAI has added is the introduction of virtual pets to Codex. These pets don’t do much, but they are cute.

OpenAI Developers wrote:

Pets. Now in Codex. Use /pet to wake your pet.

OpenAI Developers wrote:

Customize your Codex pet with /hatch

You can use the /hatch pet command followed by Create a pet <description of the pet you want>.

This has resulted in some creative and outright funny pets. For example, someone made a pet based on the president of Anthropic: Dario Amodei.

Gruz wrote:

i got angry dario in my codex. this is the best update

I had to try it myself and what better choice for a pet than Substack’s unofficial mascot: Stacky? I uploaded a vector image of Stacky that I had sitting on a hard drive and told Codex to get to work.

It’s not perfect, but it did a decent enough job. I love seeing the little animation.

Not content with Stacky alone, I uploaded some fan art I’d made of the Dungeon Master from the 1980s cartoon Dungeons and Dragons.

Codex turned my drawing into this very cute sprite. It also generates full sprite sheets.

The pet craze is sweeping Twitter. Someone even went so far as to create a public gallery where people can see what others are doing or share the pets they’ve made themselves.

Hunter wrote:

Built Petdex, a public gallery to discover, share, and install Codex pets with one curl.

If you decide to make a Codex Pet, I hope you’ll share the results with me. I’d love to see them.

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