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Equation 1 · From Autocomplete to Delegation: The Technical History Behind OpenAI Codex

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program candidate→token completion→interactive suggestion→tool-using trajectory→delegated workstream.\text{program candidate} \rightarrow \text{token completion} \rightarrow \text{interactive suggestion} \rightarrow \text{tool-using trajectory} \rightarrow \text{delegated workstream}.

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This history is best read as changes to the computational unit: program candidate→token completion→interactive suggestion→tool-using trajectory→delegated workstream\text{program candidate} \rightarrow \text{token completion} \rightarrow \text{interactive suggestion} \rightarrow \text{tool-using trajectory} \rightarrow \text{delegated workstream}. Each arrow changes what the system observes, what it can do, and how success is measured.

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