🍭 Code, Commerce, and Codex 🤖

OpenAI's latest coding model and Google's newest launch.

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Snack Prompt
September 17, 2025

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Good morning. Google just taught bots how to shop.

Don’t be surprised if one buys you 14 blenders.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

  • Another Codex?

  • Google’s AP2

  • How To Go Viral Consistently

  • And Everything Else

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OpenAI
👨‍💻 Codex Levels Up With ‘GPT-5 Codex’

The Bite: OpenAI dropped a new model: GPT-5 Codex.

This model is built specifically for coding tasks.

It’s leaner than the usual GPT-5 (using up to 93% fewer tokens on small jobs) and comes baked into the full Codex ecosystem:

→ CLI IDE extensions, cloud tools, GitHub reviews, and even mobile apps

Snacks:

  • Optimized for debugging, refactoring, and long coding sprints

  • Can run 7+ hours straight on complex projects

  • Default engine for Codex Cloud + GitHub code reviews

  • Uses 93.7% fewer tokens than GPT-5 on lightweight requests

  • Available under the $20/month ChatGPT Plus plan

Why it Bites: OpenAI might be bad at naming things (seriously, how many Codexes have we had?)

But this time the repetition makes sense.

Codex isn’t only a model.
Codex isn’t only a CLI.

It’s turning into a full-stack coding intern that runs everywhere you write and review code.

Debugging in VS Code, pushing to GitHub, or hacking in the terminal,
Codex is creeping in.

My favorite part?

To run this model in the terminal or VS code plugin, you actually don’t need an API key.

The limits on the $20/mo plan are quite generous.

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🕹️ Turn anyone into a game-ready Chibi pixel character

Shrink into a tiny, pixel-perfect chibi version of yourself.

Upload the reference first, then your image second.

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  1. Click this link (prompt)

  2. Once on the page, click ‘Use Prompt’

  3. Click ‘Send to ChatGPT’

  4. Upload the reference image

  5. Upload your image

  6. Let it pixelfy you


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Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

📊 Anthropic launches AI Economic Index

→ New dashboard tracks AI’s role in productivity, labor, and trade across the U.S. and globe.

🎙️ ElevenLabs introduces “Productions”

→ A content service where AI-generated audio is refined by human editors for professional use.

🧠 China debuts “SpikingBrain1.0”

→ A brain-inspired large language model designed to mimic human neural spiking.

🤖 Alibaba’s Qwen3-Next goes live

→ New model achieves top performance with just 3B active parameters.

📹 YouTube adds AI tools for podcasters

→ New features turn podcast episodes into Shorts and generate video from audio-only pods.

ToolBox™
🧰 Go Viral Every Consistently

🎬 Vireel — Short Video Maker 
→ Turn product inputs into polished TikTok/Reels using proven formats.

📊 viral.app — Shorts Analytics 
→ Track performance across TikTok, Reels, and Shorts with deep insights.

🎞️ revid.ai — Template Shorts 
→ Pick a template, add inputs, and auto-generate short videos with edits.

⚡ Steve.AI — Fast Video Studio 
→ Create animated and live-action videos with AI scripts, visuals, and voice.

🐦 Postel — X Growth 
→ Study what works, write like top creators, then schedule & repurpose to X.

Google
💸 Big Tech Wants Your Agent to Spend Your Money

The Bite: Google just launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2),

AP2: A universal standard for AI-driven purchases.

Instead of you clicking “buy,” AP2 lets agents handle transactions while still proving you actually authorized them.

Snacks:

  • Backed by 60+ players (Amex, Coinbase, PayPal, Mastercard, etc.)

  • Uses cryptographic “Mandates” to record what you approved

  • Covers real-time shopping and delegated tasks like ticket drops

  • Works with credit cards, stablecoins, and even bank transfers

  • Open-source and designed to prevent a fragmented payments mess

Why it bites: The internet’s old deal was “click to buy.”

Now it’s “tell your bot, and hope it doesn’t order 14 crates of oat milk.”

AP2 is Google’s bid to keep agent-driven shopping from becoming a Wild West of sketchy charges and rogue auto-checkouts.

If it plays out in their favor, your next impulse buy might not even involve you…