On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the companys Codex CLI coding agent works internally, offering developers insight into AI coding tools that can write code, run tests, and fix bugs with human supervision. It complements our article in December on how AI agents work by filling in technical details on how OpenAI implements its “agentic loop.” AI coding agents are having something of a “ChatGPT moment,” where Claude Code with Opus 4.5 and...
