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AI-Powered Development with OpenAI Codex

Course Summary

This course focuses on the shift from Instructional Programming (telling a computer how to do something) to Agentic Orchestration (telling an agent what the outcome should be). Participants will move beyond simple code generation into managing a digital workforce. The course covers the deployment of autonomous agents through the Codex Desktop App, utilizing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark for sub-second iterations, and mastering Native Context Compaction to maintain architectural integrity in large-scale repositories. By the end of the course, attendees will be capable of directing swarms of agents to refactor, test, and deploy complex software features with minimal manual typing.

Prequisites:

In order to succeed in this course, you will need:

  • Experience in full-stack or systems development
  • Comfort with CLI-based development and advanced Git workflows
  • A basic understanding of LLM context windows and tokenization
Purpose
Move from instructional programming to agentic orchestration with OpenAI Codex
Audience
Senior level engineers and programmers transitioning to agentic development
Role
Senior Software Engineers & Architects | Engineering Managers | DevOps & Platform Engineers | AI Engineers
Skill level
Intermediate
Style
Lecture | Hands-on Activities | Labs
Duration
2 days
Related technologies
OpenAI | Gen AI | Git

 

Learning objectives
  • Orchestrate Multi-Agent Swarms
  • Optimize Latency with Spark
  • Manage Large-Scale Context
  • Implement Agentic Workflows
  • Audit AI-Generated Systems

What you'll learn:

In this AI-Powered Development with OpenAI Codex course, you'll learn:

The AI Stack & Architecture

  • The Evolution of Codex: Transitioning from Autocomplete (2021) to Chat (2023) to Agentic Systems (2026)
  • The Dual-Model Strategy
    • GPT-5.3-Codex: Deep reasoning for architecture and complex debugging
    • GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: Utilizing 1,000+ tokens/sec for real-time UI iterations and "live-coding" feedback

Native Context Compaction & Repository Scale

  • Native Context Compaction
  • Structuring AGENTS.md and project-level instructions
  • Multi-File Management

Orchestrating Agentic Workflows

  • Parallelization Patterns
    • Using Git Worktrees
    • Managing merge conflicts in an AI-driven environment
  • Autonomous QA Loops
  • Agentic CLI vs. Desktop App

Advanced Tooling & Skills

  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
    • Connecting Codex to your tools (Slack, Linear, Figma, and Production Logs)
  • Building reusable automation scripts handling deployments or security audits
  • Understanding native sandboxing for safe, local execution of AI-generated scripts

The Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Role

  • Code Review at Scale
  • Strategic Decomposition
    • Creating tasks that agents can execute without intervention
  • Ethics & Security in 2026
    • Monitoring for "hallucinated vulnerabilities"
    • Managing the machine-to-machine economy (agent-driven API costs)

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