On Thursday, OpenAI announced The GPT-5.3 codec is a new coding model that is reportedly 25 percent faster than its predecessor, along with other impressive benchmarks.
However, the real shocking thing is that the Sam Altman-led company has made another claim about its development. GPT-5.3-Codex, believed to be its first model “which itself played a significant role in creating”, said its team was “infuriated” by the results.
Is the singularity almost upon us? Is this the long-awaited sign of recursive self-improvement, a point where machines are finally able to constantly rewrite their own code to transform themselves into better beings?
Not enough. In less sensational terms, OpenAI recasts the role of AI as being used to “accelerate your own development”. According to the blog post, it seemed as if “the Codex team used early versions to debug their own training, manage their own deployments, and diagnose test results and evaluations.”
In other words, the GPT-5.3.-codec helped human coders with some of their tasks—impressive, perhaps, but hardly a sign of the human race’s immediate obsolescence.
Still, AI boosters’ imaginations ran wild. Responses to a post on the r/singularity subreddit about the news They were filled with a mixture of doomsday-tinged propaganda, doomsday-tinged doom and gallows humor. One user wrote, “I hope everyone remembers what a good mid-level manager I was before the machines came.” The feeling increased to X. “Holy Moly – So It Begins!” Tweeted Another user, who runs an AI newsletter.
Overall, this is indicative of how the discussion around AI is still dominated by sci-fi concepts and rhetoric and distorted by hype. AI companies have occasionally been guilty of fanning the flames. Last month, Boris Cherny, Anthropic’s head of cloud code claimed “Almost” 100 percent of the company’s code is now AI-generated using its own models. However, what this actually looks like behind the scenes remains unclear. And it’s still a long way from the idea of ​​AI models creating new models completely autonomously.
Anthropic, though, is not alone. With the new Codex release, Altman — who was on an emotional rollercoaster recently — added to the pile with a sob story about how his coding tool was so good it made him depressed.
“I built an app with Codex last week. It was a lot of fun,” Altman Tweeted. “Then I started asking him for ideas for new features and at least some of them were better than what I was thinking. I felt a little useless and it was sad.” Who said “vibe” in “vibe-coding” has to be good?
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