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- OpenAI's Codex Micro is a physical hardware device designed as a command center for agentic coding, featuring buttons, a knob, and an analog stick to reduce keyboard use.
- The device turns coding tasks like reviewing pull requests or creating documentation into tactile experiences, but it doesn't enable building anything new beyond existing capabilities.
- A demo showed a developer creating a word game called 'One Letter Off,' which copies the 1877 Word Ladder game, but the clip was brief and included a rules-breaking mistake.
- The article criticizes Codex Micro as 'physical slop,' lacking usefulness or pride from OpenAI, akin to low-quality AI-generated content online.
- The author contrasts it with their own word game 'Tiled Words,' praised for requiring 'love and care,' unlike many AI-produced copycats.