Did OpenAI copy your implementation or was inspired? Is the claim related to the Web interface or CLI? Did Gemini 2.5 Web / CLI or Claude Code likewise infringe? What about an infringement by all the commercial and OSS vendors, Cursor and Windsurf, Cline and Roo?
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Provisional application document, as submitted to the USPTO. A provisional filing is not examined and does not demand prior art review, but you likely kept notes on the patentability at the time of filing.
At the top of Google AI search ‘early ai code generation research’, “Early AI code generation research, particularly in the realm of ‘automatic programming’, emerged from the AI field’s foundational concepts and techniques developed from the 1950s onwards.” Which aspects of your contributions do perceive as novel and non-obvious, and how would you address specificity in the case of this software program?
One year provisional grace period must have expired during Spring 2024, but the micro entity electronic filing fee is $70.00, typically not a prohibitive amount.
If July 2023 release include documentation, could you point to code and license. Screenshots of the revolutionary MS-DOS UI would help.
Steps you took to transition from GPT 3.5 to GPT 4 and attempts to address OpenAI sunsetting of plugins in April 2024 in order to switch to GPTs.
The “post describing” link is not a link, but “tool use” predates manthrax joining the forum even. You can simply cite plugins: March 2023. If in doubt that it is not tool-calling:
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But the central claim of the topic here is that a plugin offered on OpenAI in June is more “codex-like” (BTW, a fine tuned model with reasoning) than code interpreter running March, by a Github retriever functionality.
Oooo that is actually EXACTLY around when I got my provisional patent for essentially the same thing, but honestly this is a much more robust description of the api bridging portion.
Haha i dont know still having a foothold. Recombinant AI was basically Codex (read/write Github connector) with cloud storage (supabase tables/buckets), Oauth for google/github, and an MSDOS UI in Chatgpt as a plugin…
Replit Agent, for all its faults, does this pretty DAMN well..if it werent so expensive. Replit was actually the first company i reached out to since I was sort of manually using its connection with github to have chatgpt write and loop back Recombinant AI’s PRs and run stuff in replits cloud. Now its all automatic and way more robust than I could ever do
I was also sorta joking but…
Yeah.. builders pull ideas from everything they see online, and if you posted about what you were working on, the odds are high that people noticed, including people who went on to produce these kinds of coding tools.
End of the day, it’s the folks that execute on the concepts and get them over the finish line that get the “credit”.
I don’t feel like collecting/pasting the whole thread, but if you look at my only comments in 2023 you can see what I outlined wrt tool use.. agentic behavior.
I’m a lawyer, although not one who does IP. Coding is protected under the Copyright Act upon creation, so if you created/ published first and legitimately feel OpenAI used your code for Codex, then you should consult with a good lawyer, who specializes in this type of IP law.
This is not intended as legal advice obviously nor as an opinion on or assessment of the merits of any potential claim
I have no idea if the code is similar, but high level architecture is. Basically I took chatgpt and hosted a bridge to Github with read/write capabilities and cloud memory storage and a novel UI. Basically a semi- autonomous, text driven cloud IDE through chatgpt.
I didn’t post this in terms of legal recourse… its just wild to see the flow of my first coding project ever, be used by OpenAI over 2 years later.
…I also had never coded before so I used chatgpt to learn while building it entirely. It’d be pretty impossible to claim any kind of ownership since 90% of the work was done using their platform with zero prior experience lol.
One thing you might consider is open source the project (if you haven’t done so already) and potentially make the tool more generic.
You might win a lot of users and stars and get some serious credit/notoriety/fame that way
OS repos act as a kind of live CV and can be good for industry networking.
I was recently asked to apply to a well funded start-up in Silicon Valley based off of one public PR, lol. (well they probably looked around at what else I’d been up to … )
I guess Google is giving you the recognition you are looking for. If you search for “OpenAI Codex,” one of the main links under the main Codex domain called “Coding with ChatGPT” takes you to this page. I found it funny.
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