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OpenAI engineers use Codex to find and clean up codebase maintenance backlog

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OpenAI Developers says its engineers use Codex to search the codebase, identify items that need attention, and work through the maintenance backlog.

In a related post, OpenAI engineer @rrroim says Codex now finds dead-code candidates in Slack, checks them against production telemetry, and drafts cleanup pull requests. The full account is in OpenAI's developer blog post on maintaining software with the GPT-6 model family.

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    OpenAI engineers use Codex to find and clean up codebase maintenance work

    AIOpenAI describes how its engineers use Codex to search the codebase, identify items needing attention, and work through the maintenance backlog. In a related post, engineer @rrroim says Codex now finds dead-code candidates in Slack, checks them against production telemetry, and drafts cleanup PRs. The full write-up is in OpenAI's developer blog on maintaining software with the GPT-6 family.

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