Dan McAteer(@daniel_mac8):Codex's upcoming 'Persistent Mode' prompt is in the Codex open-source repo. tldr; > A new level of reasoning effort > Continues working until put to sleep > Proactively generates follow-up tasks for itself This thing is going to *RIP* with GPT-Astra, which was reportedly trained specifically for long-horizon tasks, according to The Information.

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Dan McAteer@daniel_mac8

2026.08.27 21:09

Codex's upcoming 'Persistent Mode' prompt is in the Codex open-source repo. tldr; > A new level of reasoning effort > Continues working until put to sleep > Proactively generates follow-up tasks for itself This thing is going to *RIP* with GPT-Astra, which was reportedly trained specifically for long-horizon tasks, according to The Information.