Cover of Being Productive with OpenAI Codex by Alex Merced

Being Productive with OpenAI Codex

Published by Self-published · Tech

A practical guide to building documents, images, video, websites, and apps with an AI agent using OpenAI Codex.

About the author: Alex Merced is Head of Developer Relations at Dremio and the author of 77 books on data, AI, economics, fiction, and tabletop RPGs. His story is on WhoIsAlexMerced.com.

Who this book is for

Anyone who wants serious, repeatable output from OpenAI Codex across coding and non-coding work: developers who delegate, technical generalists such as founders and analysts, and curious newcomers coming from ChatGPT.

Table of contents

  1. What Is OpenAI
  2. What Is ChatGPT
  3. What Is Codex
  4. The Codex Desktop App
  5. Codex on Your Phone
  6. A Field Guide to Codex Use Cases
  7. Local Productivity: Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations
  8. Generating Images with Codex
  9. Generating Video with Codex
  10. Building Websites with Codex
  11. Building Desktop Applications with Codex
  12. Prompting Mastery and Your Own Codex Workflow

Excerpt

The first time I delegated a real task to Codex and walked away from my computer, I came back to a diff that was better than what I would have written myself. That had not happened with any previous AI tool. It did not just return a suggestion for me to evaluate. It returned a result I could ship. That moment changed how I thought about agentic AI, and it changed what I thought a book about agentic AI needed to cover.

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