Codex in Everyday Life at the Sydney Codex Community Meetup

Still buzzing from attending the recent Sydney Codex Community Meetup overlooking beautiful Sydney Harbour.

I gave a short talk on Codex in Everyday Life: Life Admin, Learning and Play, sharing a few small experiments I've been building with Codex: a robot game made with younger family members, an interactive learning demo, a life admin planner, and a personal AI news desk for filtering AI news.

My angle was simple: I'm not a software engineer, but I'm curious about what becomes possible when everyday problems can turn into small working tools.

What I loved most was the conversation afterwards. So many people were talking about ideas, things they had always wanted to build, small problems they wanted to solve, and how Codex and AI might help close the gap between "I wish this existed" and "maybe I can make a first version."

And we kicked off with a Codex pet guessing game with the OpenAI team (spoiler: it was an iconic Aussie biscuit), which was such a fun example of making AI feel accessible and playful. That was followed by watching a World Cup card trading app being built in under 15 minutes.

My big takeaway: creative possibility matters. AI adoption is not only about productivity or efficiency. It's also about helping people see what they can make, explore and solve for themselves.

Huge thanks to the Codex ambassadors and OpenAI Australia team for organising.

P.S. You can find upcoming OpenAI community events, including Codex meetups, on the OpenAI community events page.