NEW Codex Update Is INSANE!

[00:00:00]New Codex app update is insane. Codex just shipped version 26.616 and the headline feature is something called record and replay. Here's what that means. You show Codex how to do a task one time. You click through it. You type the words. You do the whole thing once like you're training a new employee. Then Codex watches what you did and turns it into a skill it can run again by itself anytime you need it.

[00:00:23]Think about that for a second. You're not writing instructions anymore. You're not typing out long prompts trying to explain every step. You just do the task once in front of it and it learns the pattern. This sits inside something called computer use. That's the part of Codex that can actually see your screen and click around like a real person would. It's not just reading text or writing code in the background anymore.

[00:00:44]It can open apps, click buttons, fill in forms, and now with this update remember how you did it so it can do it again without you. One heads up, record and replay needs computer use turned on and right now it's not available in the EU when it first launches. So if you're in Europe, you may have to wait a bit before you can use this one. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. While he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates. Julian Goldie reads every comment, so make sure you comment below.

[00:01:15]Let's slow down on why this matters because I don't think most people are going to get it right away. Up until now, automating a task on your computer meant either writing code or using some clunky tool that needed a developer to set it up. Most business owners don't have time for that. You're busy. You don't want to learn a new coding language just to stop doing the same boring task 40 times a week. Record and replay flips that. You do the task once.

[00:01:36]You don't explain it in words. You don't write a script. You just do it with your mouse and your keyboard the same way you always have. And Codex turns that single recording into something it can repeat on command. I keep telling people the biggest barrier to using AI in your business isn't the AI. It's the setup.

[00:01:51]It's the prompting. It's the learning curve. Every time a tool removes a step like that, more regular people start actually using it. This is one of those moments. Picture something simple. Say every Monday you log into a few different tools, pull numbers, and paste them into one spreadsheet. That's boring. That's repetitive. That's exactly the kind of task that eats your morning and gives you nothing back. With Record and Replay, you do it once while Codex watches, and from then on it can do that whole chain for you. Now, here's something I want to bring up because I think it's genuinely useful, and I want to talk about how this connects to what we do inside the AI Profit Boardroom.

[00:02:24]You're trying to grow a business with AI tools, but you don't know where to start? That's exactly what we help with.

[00:02:29]We've got 2,800 business owners inside who are using tools like Codex every single day to save time and bring in more leads. Say you wanted to use this new Record and Replay feature to automate how you pull in new leads from your website and organize them. That's the kind of workflow our members are building together right now. We've got daily tutorials walking you through exactly how to set up tools like Codex step-by-step, four live coaching calls every week where you can ask questions about your exact setup, and the member map so you can connect with people near you who are already automating their business with tools just like this one.

[00:03:02]Links in the description or go to AIprofitboardroom.com.

[00:03:06]Okay, let's get back into the update because there's more here. The second change is about automation run history.

[00:03:11]Now, you can do bulk actions. You can mark everything as read in one click or archive a bunch of finished runs at once. That sounds small. It's not. If you're running a lot of automated tasks through Codex, your history list fills up fast. Before this, you'd have to go through one at a time. Now, you can clean house in a few clicks. It's a small thing, but it's the kind of small thing that tells you OpenAI is actually watching how people use this tool day-to-day, not just adding flashy features for headlines. The third piece is about browser use. This is the part of Codex that lets it actually open and use a web browser, click links, fill in forms, read pages. Two things changed here. First, visible tab routing. That means when Codex is working in your browser, it knows which tab you're actually looking at, and it can route its actions there instead of guessing or opening a new one every time. Second, and this is the one I think matters most, annotations now persist when a draft session moves to the server. Let me explain that in plain words.

[00:04:03]Sometimes you start a task locally on your own computer, and then it gets handed off to run on OpenAI's servers in the background. Before, any notes or markings Codex made while working, like highlighting a button it clicked, could get lost in that handoff. Now they stick around, so you can actually see what it did step by step even after the work moves off your machine. Why does that matter? Because trust is the whole game with these tools. If an AI agent is clicking around your business tools, your CRM, your email, your spreadsheets, you want to know exactly what it touched. Persisting those annotations means you get a paper trail. You're not just hoping it did the right thing. You can check. Let's zoom out for a second because I want to connect the dots here.

[00:04:41]A year ago, most AI tools could only read and write text. They couldn't see a screen. They couldn't click a button. If you wanted automation, you needed an engineer, an API, and a few weeks of setup time. Now look where we are. Codex can watch you do something once and repeat it. It can click through real apps. It can work in the background while you do something else, and now it keeps a visible record of what it did even after the work moves to the server.

[00:05:02]That's a massive jump in a short amount of time, and most people running a small business haven't even noticed it happened. Here's a simple way to think about record and replay if you're not technical at all. Imagine training a new assistant. You wouldn't hand them a list of typed instructions and hope they get it right. You'd sit them down, show them the task once, and say, "Now do it like that every time." That's what this is.

[00:05:21]Except the assistant never gets tired, never calls in sick, and can do it the exact same way every single time. I want to be honest about the limits, too. This is brand new. It just shipped. Record and replay isn't available everywhere yet, and like any new feature, it's going to have rough edges. If you've used computer use tools before, you know sometimes a click misses or a page loads slower than expected and throws things off. This won't be perfect on day one, but the direction is clear. Tasks that used to need a person sitting there clicking are turning into tasks you do once and never touch again. If you're running a small business, here's where I'd point your attention first. Look at the most repetitive thing you do every single week. The task where you think, I could do this in my sleep. That's the one to test this on first. Not the complicated stuff. The boring, repeatable stuff is exactly what Record and Replay is built for. If you're in marketing or sales, think about the things you do to qualify a new lead.

[00:06:12]Checking a few sources, copying details into a tracker, sending a follow-up.

[00:06:16]That's a recordable pattern. If you're in operations, think about reports you pull together every week from different tools. Also a recordable pattern. The common thread is repetition. If you do it the exact same way more than once, this feature wants to learn it. Let's talk about the bulk action change again for a second because it actually tells you something about how OpenAI is thinking about this tool. They're not just building flashy agent features.

[00:06:37]They're cleaning up the boring parts of using an agent every day, like managing a long history of runs. That's the sign of a tool maturing, not just adding party tricks. I also want to point out the browser tab routing piece again because if you've used any AI browser tool before, you know how annoying it is when it opens five new tabs instead of using the one you're already on. Fixing that sounds tiny, but it's the difference between a tool that feels broken and a tool that feels like it actually understands what you're doing.

[00:07:02]So, where does this go next? If the pattern holds, expect Record and Replay to get less EU restricted over time as it stabilizes and expect more of these recorded skills to get shareable so you could record a task once and pass that skill to someone else on your team.

[00:07:16]That's not officially out yet, but that is the obvious next step because the whole value of a recorded skill goes up the moment more than one person can use it. I'll say this plainly. If you're still doing the exact same repetitive task by hand every single week, watching this video and not testing this update is leaving time on the table. Time you could be using to bring in new customers instead. If you want help figuring out exactly how to use Codex and tools like it to automate the boring parts of your business, that's what we do inside the AI Profit Boardroom. We've got daily tutorials built around tools like Codex showing you exactly how to set up something like record and replay to save hours every week. Four coaching calls every week where our team helps you build your exact automation, not a generic one. A prompts library full of ready-made workflows. Links in the comments and description or go to AIprofitboardroom.com.

[00:08:02]And if you want even more of this kind of breakdown, the full process, the SOPs, and over 100 AI use cases like the one we just covered, come join the AI Success Lab. It's free. You'll get all the notes from this video plus access to a community of 75,000 people who are using AI to get ahead in their business right now. Links are in the comments and description. That's the Codex update.

[00:08:23]Small on the surface, big underneath. Go test it on one boring task this week and see what happens.