OpenAI’s Codex Is Now a Claude Code Competitor

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"Vibe Check: GPT-5 Codex Can Code for 35 Minutes Straight—If You Ask Nicely" by Dan Shipper/Vibe Check: OpenAI's new GPT-5 Codex is the assistant that will keep working while you grab coffee, take a nap, or contemplate your life decisions. The Every team pushed it to its limits and found it can run for a marathon 35 minutes without stopping—but only if you learn to speak its peculiar language. Read this for a day-zero vibe check on what works and what doesn't.

"Introducing Monologue: Effortless Voice Dictation" by Dan Shipper/On Every: Every's newest AI app, Monologue, lets you dictate at the speed of thought without the usual speech-to-text headaches. Built by Every entrepreneur in residence Naveen Naidu in a weekend, it's already processing over 1 million words weekly from devoted users. Read this if you want to work faster without breaking your flow state. 📣 Try it free for up to 1,000 words or get it as part of your Every subscription.

"He Got Thousands of Users Before His AI App Even Launched" by Rhea Purohit/AI & I: Most founders spend months in stealth mode only to launch to crickets. Naveen Naidu flipped the script, building a rabid user base for his AI dictation app Monologue before it even had a proper landing page. The secret? Ship fast, fail often, and never build in the dark. 🎧 🖥 Watch the full interview on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

"Launch Day Lies—Day Two Tells the Truth" by Naveen Naidu/Source Code: After building three AI products that launched with a bang but died on day two, Naveen took a different approach. He methodically built a following of thousands around a simple dictation app he’d hacked together in a weekend. The throwaway prototype launched this week as Monologue, a product he knew there was a market for—because he’d already found it.

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