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OpenAI Codex Live Demo
OpenAI · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2021–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 24 other demo videos tagged LLMs & generative AI, the mean is 1.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.1× that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 1.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 29 minutes 43 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2021-08-10.
- Channel / speaker
- OpenAI
- Verified runtime
- 29m 43s
- YouTube upload date
- 2021-08-10
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2025
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The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in LLMs & generative AI. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Codex Live DemoCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 33% | — | 29m 43s | 2021-08-10 |
| Playing a Neural Network's version of GTA V: GAN Theft Autodemo · sentdex | 3 | 4 | 33% | No recorded overlap | 17m 8s | 2021-06-18 |
| ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORSdemo · Corridor Digital | 3 | 3 | 57% | No recorded overlap | 7m 22s | 2023-02-26 |
| Generative AI for Krita - With ControlNetdemo · Acly | 2 | 2 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 2m 41s | 2023-09-16 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
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The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “o3 and Grok 4 accidentally vindicate neurosymbolic AI”. Its short rationale: Shows Codex live coding demo from 2021 as evidence LLMs writing code is old news.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Convincing ChatGPT to Eradicate Humanity with Python Code”. Its short rationale: Codex demo supporting claim models can write real code.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Convincing ChatGPT to Eradicate Humanity with Python Code”. Its short rationale: Demo showing Codex model producing running code.