OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just posted a screenshot of Codex's new onboarding screen on X. First-time users now have to pick between two modes: "Excelmogging" for everyday office work — described as "Same tools, simpler interface" with a sample task of "make a spreadsheet" — and "Codemaxxing" for professional programming, described as "For coding and development" with a sample task of "debug a database query."
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Codex was originally built around code generation and engineering tasks, but it's already racked up over 4 million weekly active users who use it for research, document summarization, and even slide decks. The new interface formalizes that trend, shunting non-programmers into a cleaner interaction. Anthropic's Claude has also split its product into Claude Code (programming) and Co Work (day-to-day work), and ByteDance's TRAE Solo similarly offers separate coding and office modes. The shift from coding agent to general-purpose office agent is becoming the industry consensus — as Linear's CEO recently argued, AI agents just add bandwidth, not replace engineers.