OpenAI’s Codex Is Now a Claude Code Competitor

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Knowledge base

"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.

From Every Studio

Spiral ships workspaces for teams

Every’s AI writing assistant Spiral has a new workspaces feature that lets teams collaborate with shared drafts and style templates. Setup takes under two minutes, and owners can control access with simple toggles. Early adopters say it makes the "time to publishable text" faster than any other tool.

Cora speeds up with smarter email routing

Our AI email “chief of staff” Cora now lets power users choose their own AI models for summaries and assistance. General manager Kieran Klaassen has shipped user-specific LLM preferences, while the engineering team deployed category templates that boost classification accuracy. A teams feature is coming soon—reach out if you want early access.

Come see some AI fun and games

Every's own Alex Duffy (who built AI Diplomacy) will be presenting an AI game at Company Ventures’s AI Review's Demo Night on Wednesday, September 24 in New York City. The event showcases AI applications being built in New York right now—each company gets 10 minutes to demo key products followed by Q&A. If you're in the NYC area and want to see what's happening in the local AI scene, spots are limited. Register to attend.

Alignment

I forgot how to read for fun. Three months ago, I realized I'd become the kind of person who owns books but doesn't read them. They just sit there, judging me from my nightstand like disappointed parents. I'd pick one up, read half a page, and my brain would literally—literally—start looking for my phone.

I think part of the problem is that I'm reading for information constantly. Google Docs and academic papers and equity reports and the torrent of social media posts—it becomes so mind-numbingly exhausting that picking up a book for leisure sounds like I've been sentenced to hard time. My eyes are processing words 12 hours a day. Why would I want to process more words "for fun"?

In reality, my reading-for-pleasure muscle had atrophied. So like returning to the gym after a long period of time off, I approached my reading slump like a rehab program: Start stupidly light and almost embarrassingly easy. Now I'm back to reading 5-10 pages per day, and my mind feels human again—like I've carved out a space where words don't have to be useful.

Reading slumps happen to the best of us, especially in our information-saturated age. Here's the program I followed—and still follow—for busting out of it:

1. Switch up your environment. Every Saturday, I go to a coffee shop with a physical book. Not my couch or not my bed but somewhere that exists solely for my reading. Your brain needs the context switch—that’s why books read on vacation stick more than those at home (not having to work helps, too). The ritual matters more than the location.

2. Read whatever book you want. I'm re-reading Watch My Back by Geoff Thompson, a memoir about a bouncer in one of the most violent nightclubs in England. Is it intellectually enriching? No. Does it make me want to know what happens next, even though I’ve already read it twice? Absolutely. That feeling—wanting to turn the page instead of having to—is the whole point. Stop reading what you think you should read, and read what makes you forget you exist for a while.

3. Leave a book in your bathroom. The stupidest advice that actually works. Sometimes you need to forget why reading matters before you can remember why you loved it.—Ashwin Sharma

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