{"id":580512,"date":"2026-07-11T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/580512\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:37:15","slug":"a-niche-macbook-idea-five-minutes-one-codex-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/580512\/","title":{"rendered":"A Niche MacBook Idea. Five Minutes. One Codex App."},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week in the AI Playground section of our Tech Memo<\/a> newsletter, we feature folks trying an AI tool, or sometimes I test stuff out myself.<\/p>\n

This week, we hear from Business Insider’s star AI reporter Stephen Council<\/a>. He’s been using OpenAI’s Codex tool to build software stuff without using code. OpenAI merged Codex with ChatGPT<\/a> this week, so this is good timing.<\/p>\n

I adore the copy-paste tool. Every day, it saves me from misspelling names, misquoting sources, wasting time on rewriting\u2026 I could go on and on. It’s quick and easy and basically perfect.<\/p>\n

This week, Codex<\/a> made it better. I’ve long wanted a version of copy-paste that lets me store multiple strings of text at once, so I can copy something new without losing what I’d copied before. There are clipboard managers for this online, but they often cost money, or add a pop-up and additional clicks \u2014 exactly the slowdowns I don’t want.<\/p>\n

I gave OpenAI’s tool a 190-word prompt, and voila! Five minutes and 26 seconds later, Codex handed me my app.<\/p>\n

Now, I have 9 different copy-paste slots on my work MacBook. Command-c and command-v work as normal, that’s slot one. But now I can keep additional names, quotes, and links at the tip of my tongue: cmd-c-2 copies text for cmd-v-2, cmd-c-3 ties to cmd-v-3, and on and on. The app hangs out on my menu bar, so if I want to see what each slot is storing, it’s all a click away.<\/p>\n

Very satisfying. It’s exactly the niche and nerdy case that vibe coding<\/a> is good for.<\/p>\n

Sign up for BI’s Tech Memo newsletter <\/strong>here<\/a>. Reach out to me via email at <\/strong>abarr@businessinsider.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every week in the AI Playground section of our Tech Memo newsletter, we feature folks trying an AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[246840,291,4281,289,290,1650,246842,38518,246836,246837,18,19,17,14581,40009,246839,307,203788,246838,82,4287,246841],"class_list":["post-580512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-additional-click","tag-ai","tag-ai-tool","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business-insider","tag-cmd-v-2","tag-codex","tag-codex-app","tag-copy-paste-tool","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-minute","tag-name","tag-niche-tool","tag-openai","tag-stuff","tag-tech-memo-newsletter","tag-technology","tag-week","tag-work-macbook"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116901855000671339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}