UX is everything: ChatGPT’s coding agent just got pets that are actually useful

👤 Tammy Moir
📅 2026-05-04

OpenAI’s Codex now has desktop “pets” that track AI tasks in real time, here’s how they work and how to use them. It sounds like just another vibe coding gimmick at first, but OpenAI’s latest update to Codex adds something surprisingly practical: desktop “pets” that act as live status trackers while your AI works in the background. If you’ve ever kicked off a long coding task … Full Product UX article at Happy Mag »

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