Things are evolving so quickly in the world of AI-assisted development, it's difficult to keep up at times.

For example: Codex, from OpenAI, is a coding agent designed to deeply understand your codebase and follow project-specific instructions using natural language. It works especially well when guided by AGENTS.md files in your repository (more on that below).

Codex was released last week. This week, GitHub announced major updates to Copilot with the introduction of Copilot Workspace, which takes assigned Github issues, spins up a development sandbox, and submits a PR with its results - almost like pairing with an AI engineer who knows your repo. I think this one has a good chance of massive adoption since it's already built into Github, where developers already live.

Visual Studio Code also announced that they’re becoming an open source AI IDE. They also now have "Agent Mode". That move feels like a direct response to Cursor, which has quickly gained traction by being AI-native from the start (and is a fork of VSC).

And just today, OpenAI announced the acquisition of LoveFrom.ai, Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup. The goal? Build consumer AI devices that are more intuitive and beautiful. The human interface layer for LLMs is going to be extremely important, and OpenAI just brought an absolute icon...