Alex Xcode AI Assistant Team Joins OpenAI's Codex
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More flour than flavour. There's a bagel in here, just not much of one.
Summary
The Alex team is joining OpenAI's Codex team after successfully building an AI coding assistant for Xcode that helps iOS and macOS developers with coding challenges and productivity. The team expresses pride in their accomplishments and excitement about continuing their mission to help people create software at a larger scale with OpenAI.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI'm excited to announce that we're joining OpenAI's Codex team!
Building a 'Cursor for Xcode' sounded crazy, but we managed to do it anyway.
It is an honor to continue that work at a much bigger scale at OpenAI.
Our mission is to help people create, and today that is more possible than ever.
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