How to Use Opus 4.7 and the New Codex

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a capability upgrade across agentic tasks, while OpenAI updated its Codex app with tools like computer use and persistent threads, shifting it beyond coding toward general knowledge work. The episode breaks down these features, early user reactions, and practical setups for users to try, emphasizing how they enable long-running, context-aware automations.

Codex's Expanded Capabilities

Codex now supports computer use on Mac, allowing it to see screens, click, and type across any app using its own cursor—without APIs or co-working limits. Multiple agents run in parallel in the background. An in-app browser lets users load pages and comment on elements for precise context, aiding front-end work or bug fixes. Native image generation via GPT Image 1.5 integrates mockups and edits into threads, alongside rich previews for PDFs, spreadsheets, slides, and documents as downloadable artifacts.

Quality-of-life updates include Mac menu bar access, Windows tray, global hotkeys for a mini-window, tabbed terminals per thread, and compact commands. These make Codex versatile: users report it handles coding previews, presentations, or docs seamlessly from one interface, organized by projects in the sidebar.