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If you’re puzzled as to why this exists, imagine that, out of the goodness of your heart, you donate $230 to OpenAI to support their mission of rear ending the singularity, and receive Codex Micro memorabilia as a token of appreciation.

Stop giving me ideas to repurpose my AKAI Fire with a simple Pi extension!!

This is not really intended as a product you will use today.

This is an intentionally provocative statement on the future of work, where your keyboard is not supplemented by, but rather replaced by a dozen or so buttons for prompting (via voice), reviewing, approving or rejecting.

Codex Micro is a workstation controller for the knowledge worker in sama's 2030 fever dream. I'm not even entirely sure I disagree.

If anyone is looking at this thinking it looks pretty and wants to check out Work Louder's keyboards, let me save you the time. Their keyboards must be made by designers who do not type much because they are both not pleasant to type on and not very high-quality.

The Nomad [E] might be one of the worst keyboards I've ever purchased, and I owned one of the original butterfly switch MacBooks.

Wouldn't surprise me if the real purpose of this is to get a physical object on your desk that makes you constantly think about Codex -- either babysitting your currently-running agents when it's lit up and running, or subconsciously bullying / shaming you into using Codex if you're not right at this very moment.

An electronic Siren's Song if you will.

My first question is this — what does this do that a $50 Streamdeck cannot?

At this point these companies are going to release merch to fund themselves

Is it April 1st already?

This is pretty hilarious. Guess people forgot how to use PCs and can only prompt now.

It's not clear why this physical object is a better solution to the problem than, say, a window on your screen. Feels like more of a hobby project than something that provides $230 of value.

$230 for a macropad with an exposed PCB and no washers under the Allen screws.

I'm not sure what the joystick is for, and neither are they apparently: the only example they give is something that could just be a keybind.

We need to bring back the 'turbo' button.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button#Purpose

After a few minutes on the site, I have no clue what this is for. A keyboard that interacts with Codex? That’s just a software feature, why am I paying $230 for hotkeys?

This is a rebranded/reskinned WORK LOUDER Creator Micro 2 btw (https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2). Great device if you're into expensive tech toys (a la Teenage Engineering), but if you were waiting for a big OpenAI hardware reveal sorry to disappoint.

I thought it was a new model.

I'm curious who the target audience is. As a developer I already spend all day at my keyboard, so I'm not yet convinced dedicated hardware is faster than a desktop app. I'd love to hear from people who've actually used it.

My first reaction is WTF. My second reaction isn't here yet.

A quarter RGB keyboard for the price of half a MacBook Neo? Yeah this will sell like hot cakes...

Not that long (10 hours) ago this was considered a joke: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1uwzr82/got_my_...

I am surprised they released this. Who is the audience for this? You can DIY this yourself surely.

OK, these folks have way too much money. This is like peak-Google vibes.

Why isn't there a video of it?

Codex micro - is it a tiny coding agent? Or a small coding model? No it is hardware, that has nothing to do with coding.

I think they should have called it "codex luna" - because it's small!

This is partially an on-ramp for young people. No experience? Not sure where to start? Buy this gadget! Hook it up to your machine then take lessons on how to use it. All in the OpenAI ecosystem, of course.

Best outcome for OpenAI is that this becomes a status symbol / cool shiny thing that "leet" devs have.

For someone with a lot of experience already, this looks semi-retarded. For a newbie / newcomer it looks like someone finally thought of them.

I checked the date but no.

on one hand...this looks cool/teenage engineering-esque. on the other...engineers have been infantilized forever now but this is a new level. it feels like my career has been dwindled down to ... what? a few colors and like 5 buttons? reminds me of something out of idiocracy a bit. just need a button that orders a nice juicy hamburger for me during my lunch break.

but jokes aside, I suppose you can look at this being sort of like a numpad in addition to your main keyboard so I see the point of this gimmicky thing

8th openai product named codex btw

Windows and Mac only (no Linux).

While I love a good piece of hardware with real buttons, I struggle to justify the money on this. If it supported Linux and was a bit cheaper I might splerge just to have a toy, but I'm definitely not switching to windows or mac just for this.

I thought this was an aprils fools joke. Then i realized it’s July..

Wait. This is only a keyboard?! For how much?!

So when are we gonna get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0 ?

I don't understand the many Teenage Engineering references in this thread, this design has no soul.

I don't understand. What's costing 230$ here???

I was just thinking of making something like this! But more as a novelty than something I realistically expect to use.

First question; if theres a knob to adjust thinking level, and I can switch between agents, what if I turn down the knob for one agent and switch to another? Do I just insta-lobotomize it?

I like it because it looks sleak, and the colors are neat.

However, it really puts in perspective that a large part of my job has just become clicking a few buttons.

I KVM between a bunch of boxes and I have a Doio KB16 for Claude and I love it. I get the reasoning for the product. Price is..... interesting.

https://doioshop.com/products/doio-16-keys-programmable-mult...

This is just a Macropad, right? All of the smarts are on the PC side. So why is it so expensive?

So this is why Apple is suing OpenAI and Johnny I’ve? A stream deck with LEDs?

Is this a joke? Instantly thought of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1s7m8ld/this_is_the...

Things you do if you definitely are focused on the a Trillion USD industry and SuperDuperUltraMega AGI is 100% possible and what you are fully committed to. Next they’ll spend Millions on a podcast that fails to get 50k hits on YouTube or a design firm whose biggest claim to fame is creating a Ferrari whose interior looks like a Magic Mouse. Say what you want about Anthropic, their Aquihires and interpretability investments at least make sense for an LLM lab.

Looks cool. I’m looking for a macro pad with a little LCD that’s Mac and Linux compatible.

This looks like it has LEDs but not a screen.

Any experience with https://www.eezbotfun.com/ or recommendations for something similar?

Looks fun, but I don't quite understand this product:

  - Do the buttons map to configurable skills / prompts?
  - Is it meant to be used remotely with some independence (like codex remote), or is it a peripheral like a trackpad?

Seems like they're just throwing spaghetti at the wall.

We're rapidly approaching the Jetsons one button workplace territory.

Finally, a profitable product for OpenAI.

Damn, OpenAI really jumped the shark

Or just order any macropad

Pretty sure I could just vibe code this with my old Elgato Stream Deck. As a bonus, it wouldn't become eminently useless if I swap to any other model provider.

Is it April already?

Looks like a novelty item made with the purpose of testing their hardware production capabilities before producing a real product.

Also, translated pages transform newlines into \n.

what happened to the Jonny Ive and them purchasing his agency?

6.5 billions paid, nothing so far, this was such a sus transaction, sounded like the way to get money out of OpenAI.

This was not worth getting sued by Apple

I like the teenage engineering style, but is that the hardware that they were stealing Apple secrets for?

Is it compatible with Apple cloth though?

Post a picture of one of these with the “X” key conspicuously removed and you’d probably get a repost from Sam

We march ever closer to the cntl c v keyboard!

Where's the Stream Deck emulation layer?

Lol this is trippy, although not sure how much use I really would get outta this thing

$230 for essentially a fancy numpad that's only useful for one tool? Welcome to the AI revolution

You know you can take that old phone out of the drawer, let an AI code a webpage for you which runs on the phone, you attach it to the side of the keyboard (maybe by gluing some magnets), and you have a cheap Stream Deck you control and can wire however you want.

Why don't these companies don't just do that, offer "assistant control pages"?

They made a streamdeck?!?

This feels like a missed opportunity for an OpenAI Nintendo Power Glove collab. Smh.

AGI is almost here, but first, one more thing... a keyboard controller!

Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?

Regardless, device looks nice

Presentation is not clear to me. How is it superior to using my keyboard?

This device should have been a blog post about how you can make this device with an Arduino/Pico and a 3D printer and Codex.

they would prefer that you never words type manually again

Literally just keymaps

Ordered. Not sure will beat my streamdeck modules, but YOLO

This is the lamest possible implementation, exactly what I would expect from openAI. Nothing about it is interesting or unique or really leverages the power of LLMs to make a new experience.

One step closer to desks with a monitor and a single big red pushbutton to nudge the token spend forward.

I'd personally like one that says "slop me up", or maybe plays an airhorn sample or whatever...

wow, great partnership for Work Louder but man, I have a micropad from work louder, it's basically just a weird layout for a macropad.

If this is a sign of what’s to come from OAI, it’s going to be worse than Meta devices.

Is this the moat?

Wow, they are going to sell dozens of these!

So it's like a more limited Streamdeck.

It's just a keyboard.

Nothing to see here.

Why not a Stream Deck? I own 3 stream decks, and they are incredibly useful. Not only for coding, but windows controlling, shortcuts for anything. And the best part is that there are small screens you can customize.

Seems a bit silly (especially given how easy LLM's make building such an accessory)

i guess they were stealing pricing logic from apple

I want to make my frontend look clean and pretty like this too.

The developers who build OpenAI's UI seem really skilled.

I had to check the calendar as I thought it’s April fool. What’s the point of this? Isn’t that like the meme of stackoverflow keyboard?

Is this the Jony Ive device?

It looks very sus like an Apple product.

This is the kind of stuff that happens when there’s too much money

i guess this is cool if you are going to expense it as a business but $250 is insane. I'm going to wait for the temu version with the usual hidden mic and phone-home feature

I ordered one because I lack impulse control.

1. looks nice, want.

2. lol, why is this $230

"Hey Codex, help me design the most useless hardware you can think of"

> Flick the joystick to launch common Codex workflows like reviewing a PR, debugging an error, or refactoring code.

Uh… what?

Finally! Definitive, tangible, tactile proof that we're near the top of the bubble. /s

Where have I seen this before

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ue5inx/i_built...