Every week in the AI ​​Playground section of our Tech Memo newsletter, we feature people trying out an AI tool, or sometimes I try things out myself.

This week, we hear from Business Insider’s star AI reporter, Stephen Council. He has been using OpenAI’s Codex tool to create software without using code. OpenAI merged Codex with ChatGPT this week, so it’s good timing.

I love the copy and paste tool. Every day, it saves me from having to misspell names, misquote sources, waste time rewriting… I could go on and on. It’s quick, easy, and basically perfect.

This week, Codex he did better. For a long time I’ve wanted a version of copy and paste that would allow me to store multiple strings of text at once, so I could copy something new without losing what I had copied before. There are clipboard managers for this online, but they often cost money or add a popup and extra clicks – exactly the slowdowns I don’t want.

I gave the OpenAI tool a 190-word message and voila! Five minutes and 26 seconds later, Codex delivered my app.

I now have 9 different copy and paste slots on my work MacBook. Command-c and command-v work normally, that’s slot one. But now I can keep names, quotes, and additional links on the tip of my tongue: cmd-c-2 copies text to cmd-v-2, cmd-c-3 links to cmd-v-3, and so on. The app hangs in my menu bar, so if I want to see what each slot stores, it’s all a click away.

Very satisfactory. It is exactly the case of niche and nerdy that vibration coding It’s good for.

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