OpenAI added animated pets to Codex that live in your coding environment. Use /pet to wake one and /hatch to customize it. The community has already created favorites like Angry Dario, and you can browse and share pets at codex-pets.net.
OpenAI released Pets inside of Codex, which is just like a new little character that sort of lives inside of your Codex. You can see in their demo, it's this little like cloud robot character that they spawned in. It's funny because we're getting all this news from OpenAI about how they're eliminating side quests, and then we get like these little pets that live inside of Codex. So if you use /pet, it'll wake your pet. If you use /hatch, you can actually customize what you want your pet to look like. I've seen some pretty interesting pets. Already. I think my favorite pet that I've come across is this one from Gruzz or Grooze, which is the Angry Dario pet, which is just like a mad Dario that runs around. And if you yourself want an angry little Dario running around in Codex, well, there is a platform available over at codex-pets.net where you can see pets that other people have created and then pull those pets into your own Codex platform. If you want a deeper dive into what Codex is capable of, out this AI second brain. It leverages Codex and Obsidian. Really, really cool.
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