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Episode 75 · July 12, 2026 · 15:21

NEW ChatGPT 5.6 & Codex Update

The script tests Codex rebranded as ChatGPT using GPT 5.6, showing how to switch between speed/effort settings and run multiple tasks. The creator builds and pins projects, demos a working habit tracker, and uses “computer use” to have ChatGPT navigate a Skool group and publish a personalized public post. They link Descript via a plugin to edit a video by removing filler words and adding effects, and start installing Hermes Agent from GitHub in a separate project folder while a new AI Profit Boardroom website is generated. The finished site is compared to an older version and praised for a modern design, CTAs, animations, and functional FAQ. The video ends by highlighting use cases (websites, social content, video editing, automation, image generation) and promoting the AI Profit Boardroom community and trainings.

Full transcript

So today we're going to be testing our GPT 5.6 plus codecs to see how it goes. If you're not sure what codecs, I mean, it's rebranded to ChatGPT first of all. So it doesn't seem to be called codecs anymore. It is called ChatGPT.

And then you can see over here, we have Sol and we can switch between the different settings. We can go from faster to smarter over here, and then we can get started with building with this. So if you're not familiar with codecs or ChatGPT as it's now called, then you can see an example of it here. So for example, if we wanted to start a new project from scratch, we can go to new task, click on new project, start from scratch, start building out with this.

So example project. And then what I'm actually going to do over here is just have a look with Claude and see, okay, what could I build today that would actually be useful? So I'm going to say, okay. And in the meantime, whilst he's doing that, I'm just going to try this inside ChatGPT.

So we'll say create a new website for the AI profit boardroom community. And actually what I'm going to do is go over to sites over here. Then we're going to click on create. And from here, we're going to plug in the details.

So they actually have like a separate section just for creating websites over here. Which we'll try right now. And then we can just hit enter like so inside ChatGPT and I'll just give it some information that it can use from my existing website so that it can create a better version now. Example of this existing version now attached.

And then I'm also going to increase the effort here just to get better outputs from this. So we're going to try sold extra high and try this out. So you can see it's now working as a task. And we can also pin that so we can have it for later.

So we can save that for later as you can see. So it's pinned right at the top. It's like what I've noticed is inside codecs, it's a little bit hard to navigate between them all and that sort of thing. So in the meantime, let's see what else we could do here.

So we actually created out this habit tracker website as well. And we can open that up in ChatGPT or inside Chrome, whatever you want. So let's have a look at this inside Chrome. See what it's like.

Pretty nice design, isn't it? Let's check it actually works. Read for 20 minutes. Yeah, actually works, isn't it?

So, I mean, you're at the point now where you can basically build whatever you want using the system, super easy to do. You just type it in one step at a time. So we can build apps, tools, games. Let's see what we've got over here as recommended builds.

So daily automation builder tracker. Let's try that one. So we're going to go back into codecs. We've already created a website.

We've got another website being built over here. One other thing that I would like to test out is compute use. So if you're not familiar with this, basically you can type at computer, you can get codecs to control your computer in the background and type and that sort of thing. So if we go inside here and we're like, right, compute use, check out, and I'll give you a link to school.

See if it can navigate our free school group, check out school and post a link or post a new post about how to use codecs with GPT 5.6 plus what you can do with it. Let's see if it can actually do that. So we can trigger compute use, which means that codecs can start using compute use, start using our computer, start posting with it, and you can see the preview over here. Now, if you actually want to have a look and open up, you can just click on that.

Let's see how it performs. I think that can just work in the background there. So you can see what it's doing as a preview over here. And then if we go back over to school, you can see that it's now started typing.

So my cursor is moving side to side here. But you can see chat GPT's cursor is navigating the page directly. So it can work in the background. It seems pretty good for compute use.

And it does seem a little bit slow here. And it says like posting publicly on your behalf as Julian. Shall I publish now? I'm going to say yes.

And we'll see if that actually works. So it says I'm entering the finished copy and publishing now. Doesn't seem to be typing anything, but let's see. So it's planning it step by step.

I mean, to be fair for a post like this, it's super slow, but I guess you could just schedule the task in for later using the scheduled tasks. And then you don't even need to be at the computer to do it. Like it's just running in the background and doing this for you. Now it's typing it in.

I think, see, we can see the preview over here. So it's added the title and the post itself, and then it's clicking post. This is very weird. Can it actually do it?

Now, if we have a look on the right-hand side, we've got the pet and we can see the different things it's working on. So it completed that task perfectly. Actually gave some really good tips. It's like, here's GPT 5.6 is here.

So I'm proud to use it. It's posted for me, work perfectly. This is something that I've actually tried to get Claude to do before, and it didn't work very well. I would say this example is way better.

It's actually personalized it to me. So it knows I do SEO and it's used that as an example. And then it's added the process over here. So that completed the task perfectly, really nice.

And then it asked people to comment. That is crazy. And then the cool thing about chat GPT with the pet is like, you can see what it's working on and the different conversations. And then if you're doing something else on, for example, Chrome or another app, you can click back to it and see what's working on.

So the great thing about that is it's easy to manage all your projects in one place and see everything that's going on. So we've covered building websites, computer use as well. Pretty nice. Let's see what else we can do here.

Have a look through the list. This is pretty crazy. So we can link Descript as an app, and then I think it can actually edit videos as well for you, which would be interesting and fun to try. So let's try that.

We're going to add this now, and then we just have to link it with the plugin section, there's so many different options. So I'm going to add this one. I'm going to add this one. I've never tried this before, so I'm excited to try it.

So if we have a look here, it's just installing the plugin that's set up. So let's try it now. And then we are going to say, okay, let's edit this example. We'll say, see my latest SEO video.

And then what it's actually going to do is look through my SEO videos and see what's going on. So I'm going to add this one. I'm going to add this one. I'm going to add this one.

I'm going to add this one. I'm going to add this one. And then what it's actually going to do is look through my videos, find the latest one, and then edit it for me as a video agent, so it should find this one, hopefully, but let's see. And also when you're using Codex, you can switch between different tasks.

So you can, ah, it's actually found it as well. Look at that. So now it's found the video and it's going to start editing it for us. That's pretty cool.

All right. It does seem to have like some sort of error though. Let's see what we get in a second. So in the meantime, we can try something else.

So let's say for example, we want to install and get Hermes agent inside the GitHub working. So I'm going to take the GitHub here. We're going to Codex. Let's say install this, plus make sure it works.

Use chat GPT Codex with Omar to log into Hermes agent. So basically we're going to try and set up Hermes agent logged in and use it for Codex. Now, actually I've made a bit of a mistake there because I should have created a new folder for this. And for every project, you want to have a new folder.

So for example, if we've got this video agent working in the background, then we should set up this inside a separate task. So I'm just going to do that in a sec. We'll archive this chat, and then we're going to add a new task or set up the folder, new project, use an existing folder, set up a new folder, and then we'll say, okay, Hermes agent, then we'll click open. Let's see if it can do that.

So this links directly to the GitHub and we're using Codex to help us. So now we have a video agent. We have Hermes agent being installed. We've got the website being created over here.

It seems like actually if you've got the pet enabled, even though this conversation is still going, it doesn't show up inside the chat. So it kind of seems like either there's a bug with that or it can only show two conversations maximum because that conversation is ongoing, but we can't see it inside Codex. Or maybe it only shows the projects where you've got a folder. So this is kind of more like a website task.

So it just won't show inside the pet. If you're wondering what the pet is, basically, if you go to your profile, bottom left, you can enable or hide the pet. If you show the pet, basically when you're working on tasks in the background, it'll give you a preview over here. So that is being built out now.

Let's see if it can install Hermes. Computer use tasks work really well. The website we're still waiting for. That seems pretty slow.

You can also change the speed. You can switch on 1.5X speed. It will move 50% faster, but it will use more tokens as well. So just bear in that mind.

And it seems to be creating the site now as well. Now also some other cool stuff that we've built with Codex and this is using our AgentOS system. So we have Codex plugged in here where we can have goal mode, we've got the chat. We've got a full workspace of everything we've created.

If you go to GoldieBench and we look at some of the creations, GPT516 is really, really good with chat GPT. So for example, if we go to GPT 5.6 Sol over here, and Sol is by far the best model to use, especially inside chat GPT app, it seems like really the app is like a super app now, it's no longer Codex if that makes sense. But yeah, it can create some awesome stuff. So here's an example, here's another one.

This is a game that created, so I can create lots of amazing stuff. As you can see, and it's really good at building this stuff out. I mean, it's not quite Fable 5 level, but it's just up there. Let's see what else we've got here.

So we have a video that we've created. This was actually done with Reemotion, but a super nice video as you can see here. And Reemotion is a free skill you can install to teach your agents how to use video and create videos. So if we go back to this chat now, we've got the edited version.

So if we click on that, let's see what we got. So this is using the plugin. Yeah. So it's removed, like for example, the filler words and that sort of thing.

Can't see any major changes in that, but it gives you a breakdown of everything that's done so far. So, I mean, that literally replaces a human editor at that point, because you've got this video agent that can access it directly and you just say, Hey, make this, et cetera. We could also say, okay, can you add some nice effects, lots of animations, et cetera. Let's make it look beautiful.

I wonder if it can actually do that or how long it would take to actually do that for us. Oh yeah. Look, so it can do like the zooms and everything else, all these effects here. That is super useful.

If it actually looks good. I think that would take quite a long time to come back, but at the same time, it's great. Now we've got Hermes agent being installed over here and we have the website for the AI Profitable Audium ready to go to. So let's open it up inside Chrome.

Take a look. Wow. That looks beautiful, isn't it? That is super nice.

And you can see here that it's also added the video inside the page too. So if we look at the old version, this is the old version. This was actually created with Opus 4.8, which was not too bad, but it's a little bit outdated. I think right now it could look a lot more modern and classy.

This is a new version created with Codex and you see how it's updated. Updated the style, the design, the way that it looks. It looks a lot more interesting. It doesn't feel like AI so much.

It's got the CTAs and then also, yeah, the link to the website that we want to send traffic to, which is great. Additionally, I like the little effects here. So for example, even the little animation, the highlighted words, it feels classy. Let's have a look at the FAQ, see if that actually works.

Yeah, it does. And then it's sectioned it into layers. We can switch between these. We can click on these different arrows, but everything inside the design is just so much nicer, isn't it?

So if you're thinking about use cases for this, how would I use it? Well, I think like it's great for, for example, social media content. I think that very good at video editing or creating videos. It can create beautiful websites or redesign your existing website.

It's great at computer use. There's very little that Codex can't do. I think they've leveled up massively with this new update, particularly with GPT 5.6. So I think like it probably will be useless if you switch down to like the lower effort levels, but overall, fantastic tool, really, really good.

And by far the best update that we've seen recently. The other thing I want to say here is if you're using Codex, you can also generate images. So the way, for example, it comes up with these nice designs is it uses chat GPT image 2.0. And so we can use that inside our content when we're creating stuff with it as well.

So that's basically it for me. If you want to get the full masterclass on how to use GPT 5.6, Codex, how to get the most out of it, all of our best training, we have a community of 4,000 members inside the AI Profitable Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the AI Profitable Boardroom.com. Inside the community, you can post questions.

I personally answer them daily. Inside the calendar, you can jump on four weekly coaching calls, get help and support in real time. In the classroom, you can get access to all of our best trainings and lessons. And in the map, you can meet people in your local area who are building with AI agents like you.

And this is all available inside the AI Profitable Boardroom. Additionally, we've got lots of trainings on Codex. So for example, if you type in Codex inside here, you can see all of our best trainings inside the classroom. And then also you can type in chat GPT.

So if you want to learn more about chat GPT, you can find all of our best trainings and lessons. And we have video tutorials plus step-by-step guides, as you can see for pretty much everything that we've talked about here, so lots of great stuff that you can do with Codex, really powerful tool, even better now that we've got GPT 5.6. And I'm excited to see what else we can automate with this. I like the fact that it works in the background and you can do so much cool stuff.

Thanks for watching. See you on the next one. Cheers. Bye bye.

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