❯ OpenAI adds composer predictions to Codex and lets users create dots from their phones

Guessing your next instructionOpenAI’s Codex lead Thibault Sottiaux announced on October 9 that the Codex desktop app now has composer predictions. As the OpenAI developer account describes it, Codex suggests the user’s next message based on the conversation and how they talk to it, in beta for Pro users. Sottiaux said it is included in Pro plans without consuming usage.

Dots from the phoneThe same day he announced that users can create and text their dot entirely from the ChatGPT mobile app, on both iOS and Android. Previously they had to be created in the desktop or web app. Both updates were labeled “Day 5,” part of the team’s recent run of shipping one improvement a day.

Saving the back-and-forthWorking with a coding agent means issuing a stream of instructions: confirming a plan, telling it to continue, correcting course. Composer predictions pre-write the predictable ones so the user only confirms or edits. A day earlier Codex made steering instant, and with this addition the changes target the same thing: shortening each round trip between person and agent.

▮ SIGNALWith the models themselves converging, coding tools are now competing on how little the human has to say, down to letting the model guess what the user will type.