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How to Use Opus 4.7 and the New Codex

24 min

This episode delves into the new capabilities of Anthropic's Opus 4.7 model and OpenAI's updated Codex app, highlighting how these tools are transforming knowledge work. It explores Codex's expanded computer use, "monothread" automations for continuous context, and its evolution beyond coding, while Opus 4.7 demonstrates significant performance jumps across various benchmarks and improved handling of complex, longer tasks. The discussion also contrasts the UI design philosophies of the two platforms.

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✨ Key Takeaways

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Codex's Expanded Capabilities

OpenAI's Codex now offers *computer use on Mac*, allowing it to interact with any app, and introduces *heartbeats* for automations that maintain context across long-running "monothreads," transforming it into a powerful tool for general knowledge work beyond just coding.
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Opus 4.7's Performance Leap

Anthropic's Opus 4.7, while not Mythos Preview, shows *significant benchmark improvements* across coding, finance, and office tasks, demonstrating enhanced vision capabilities and the ability to handle *longer, more complex reasoning tasks* with less micromanagement.
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The "Monothread" Paradigm

A key concept for Codex is the *"monothread pilled"* approach, where long-lived threads with improved context compaction increase value over time, enabling use cases like a personal *Chief of Staff* that proactively monitors and summarizes information.

💬 Notable Quotes

"Yesterday I tweeted that the problem with the term vibe coding ended up not actually being that all coding became vibe coding, but that all knowledge work is becoming coding work."
"This is the first time I've ever seen an LLM operated GUI as fast as a person and it's surreal."

— Erie Weinstein
"My own version of a monothread is a work teammate thread. My work is noisy and spread across Slack, Gmail, G-Cal GitHub, files in an obsidian vault and a bunch of other codex threads. I need something that can filter the noise and tell me which few things are worth caring about."

— Nick Bauman