OpenAI rolled out its Agents API in public beta Thursday, opening the backend behind Codex to developers looking to run agents unattended for days. Now, developers don’t have to build their own system to keep an agent going because the API keeps track of the job as it progresses and gives the agent somewhere to execute its work, even when a task stretches well beyond a single context window. Although that makes long-running agents easier to try, it also gives developers more ways to burn through compute. Interestingly enough, on the same day Agents API launched, OpenAI paused new sign-ups for...

Source: The New Stack