Codex Micro

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paxys•about 1 hour ago

This is a rebranded/reskinned WORK LOUDER Creator Micro 2 btw (https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2). Great device if you're into expensive tech toys (a la Teenage Engineering), but if you were waiting for a big OpenAI hardware reveal sorry to disappoint.

zitterbewegung•about 1 hour ago

IMHO this is a much better solution.

https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/claude-code-usage-ea7...

I actually have this as a problem with Codex / Claude where I don't know if I have to make a decision .

steve1977•about 1 hour ago

At least it's much more expensive

nateb2022•about 1 hour ago

ooh Micro 2 is a lot cheaper, but doesn't seem to have individually addressable RGB keys unless I'm mistaken?

nateb2022•20 minutes ago

Update: did some research, found this thing for $39 https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-ek21

It's got 20 keys, hot-swappable, and individually addressable RGB.

And for an FOSS printable one, https://github.com/Dwin17/bento

woadwarrior01•about 1 hour ago

$56 premium for the OpenAI skin. :)

genxy•about 1 hour ago

Or you could get a bluetooth number pad for $20.

bel8•about 1 hour ago

Apple must be happy that they let Jony Ive go. What a letdown.

(assuming this meh partnership rebranding had his participation)

alwillis•21 minutes ago

Pretty sure this isn’t the secret Jonny Ive project.

jawns•about 2 hours ago

It's not clear why this physical object is a better solution to the problem than, say, a window on your screen. Feels like more of a hobby project than something that provides $230 of value.

vel0city•about 1 hour ago

I know a lot of people who really like things like the Stream Deck. This seems similar to that kind of a concept. I'd probably take the Stream Deck over this though, its a good bit cheaper and each button has a little screen on it. Having some physical knobs is an interesting twist on it though.

https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck

lrae•22 minutes ago

There is the Stream Deck Plus with physical knobs and a touch b... strip. :)

https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck-plus

BedVibe_Studios•about 1 hour ago

I'm curious who the target audience is. As a developer I already spend all day at my keyboard, so I'm not yet convinced dedicated hardware is faster than a desktop app. I'd love to hear from people who've actually used it.

hectdev•about 1 hour ago

As someone with a few unused Teenage Engineering things. The real answer is probably rich tech people who love having things that make people say "I'm not sure who the target audience is".

pwython•about 1 hour ago

I set up an old Stream Deck to do the same thing. I stopped using it after a few days. This design looks great though, status lights are a nice touch. YouTube vibe coders will love it, traditional devs will keep MacGyvering their own toys.

flyingcircus3•31 minutes ago

I see it as another iteration of the wave that had everyone controlling agents directly from a chat app like slack. It isn't actually a more effective way to reach flow state, exchange information faster, and move your development projects forward to greater success, its simply a novel, oddly satisfying input mechanism, at least for the first day.

Which is no different than when the iphone first came out, the basic concept of touch screens was endlessly novel as an input and output device. That novelty did a lot more heavy lifting than what we can now see in hindsight was appropriate, because now many of us won't be able to control the temperature in our cars after the touch screen fails.

I think its the same underlying mechanism that explains why I, a person who has never recorded or mixed audio in a studio, and a person who can know for certain that purchasing a 24 channel mixing console isn't going to faclilitate my career change or even hobby development. But part of me is still viscerally certain that my life would be fuller if I purchased a 24 channel mixing console.

I don't need a legitimate reason to own a tool, or a problem I would fix with it, to fantasize about using that tool.

johntash•about 1 hour ago

The keyboard community maybe? I think these little macro pads are neat, but I don't have a real use for them either.

notatoad•about 1 hour ago

i'm guessing the primary market for these will be free gifts to enterprise customers at sales meetings.

delusional•about 1 hour ago

And you would need to spend your day at your keyboard for this to be useful anyway. It's just an input device.

bogdan•about 1 hour ago

We need to bring back the 'turbo' button.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button#Purpose

hyperhello•about 2 hours ago

My first reaction is WTF. My second reaction isn't here yet.

ithkuil•about 1 hour ago

My second reaction is: ah is this what the stolen IP from apply fuss was all about?

My first reaction isn't here yet

steve1977•about 2 hours ago

A quarter RGB keyboard for the price of half a MacBook Neo? Yeah this will sell like hot cakes...

arjie•40 minutes ago

It’s $230 vs. $699? That’s almost exactly a third, not half.

paxys•about 1 hour ago

It isn't meant to sell like hot cakes. Work Louder is the keyboard equivalent of Teenage Engineering. They make expensive toys for silicon valley engineers.

steve1977•about 1 hour ago

So work louder is the new work smarter?

lrae•20 minutes ago

And very fitting in this case, too, with everybody having to use voice input. :)

volkk•about 2 hours ago

on one hand...this looks cool/teenage engineering-esque. on the other...engineers have been infantilized forever now but this is a new level. it feels like my career has been dwindled down to ... what? a few colors and like 5 buttons? reminds me of something out of idiocracy a bit. just need a button that orders a nice juicy hamburger for me during my lunch break.

but jokes aside, I suppose you can look at this being sort of like a numpad in addition to your main keyboard so I see the point of this gimmicky thing

f3408fh•about 1 hour ago

With that lens your career before this device was a few colors and 104 keys?

addedGone•about 1 hour ago

Programming is basically now playing with some keystrokes and joysticks :p

vel0city•about 1 hour ago

They've been issuing these new tablets to the new people at work, productivity has gone through the roof. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2ZD6J2W

Juvination•about 1 hour ago

I like it because it looks sleak, and the colors are neat.

However, it really puts in perspective that a large part of my job has just become clicking a few buttons.

injidup•about 2 hours ago

I checked the date but no.

cyanbane•about 1 hour ago

I KVM between a bunch of boxes and I have a Doio KB16 for Claude and I love it. I get the reasoning for the product. Price is..... interesting.

https://doioshop.com/products/doio-16-keys-programmable-mult...

techpression•about 1 hour ago

Thanks for the link, it seems a lot more capable and interesting, to a much better price.

nzoschke•about 2 hours ago

Looks cool. I’m looking for a macro pad with a little LCD that’s Mac and Linux compatible.

This looks like it has LEDs but not a screen.

Any experience with https://www.eezbotfun.com/ or recommendations for something similar?

varjag•about 1 hour ago

We're rapidly approaching the Jetsons one button workplace territory.

hazrmard•about 1 hour ago

Looks fun, but I don't quite understand this product:

  - Do the buttons map to configurable skills / prompts?
  - Is it meant to be used remotely with some independence (like codex remote), or is it a peripheral like a trackpad?

quacky_batak•about 1 hour ago

I like the teenage engineering style, but is that the hardware that they were stealing Apple secrets for?

gervwyk•about 1 hour ago

I thought this was an aprils fools joke. Then i realized it’s July..

tanseydavid•about 1 hour ago

How long before someone shows a hobby project with a robotic arm and computer vision controlling one of these?

I am only half-joking.

fwlr•about 1 hour ago

Post a picture of one of these with the “X” key conspicuously removed and you’d probably get a repost from Sam

LudwigNagasena•about 2 hours ago

Looks like a novelty item made with the purpose of testing their hardware production capabilities before producing a real product.

Also, translated pages transform newlines into \n.

qwertytyyuu•about 2 hours ago

We march ever closer to the cntl c v keyboard!

__mharrison__•about 2 hours ago

Where's the Stream Deck emulation layer?

inferhaven•about 1 hour ago

Lol this is trippy, although not sure how much use I really would get outta this thing

bertili•about 1 hour ago

AGI is almost here, but first, one more thing... a keyboard controller!

robotswantdata•about 1 hour ago

Ordered. Not sure will beat my streamdeck modules, but YOLO

mrnotcrazy•about 1 hour ago

This is the lamest possible implementation, exactly what I would expect from openAI. Nothing about it is interesting or unique or really leverages the power of LLMs to make a new experience.

dvduval•about 1 hour ago

Presentation is not clear to me. How is it superior to using my keyboard?

port3000•about 2 hours ago

Where have I seen this before

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1ue5inx/i_built...

throwaw12•about 2 hours ago

Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?

Regardless, device looks nice

alwillis•18 minutes ago

> Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?

Of course not.

zitterbewegung•about 2 hours ago

Would think they would be doing it for their own hardware device for chatgpt not for developers.

kylemaxwell•about 1 hour ago

Pretty sure I could just vibe code this with my old Elgato Stream Deck. As a bonus, it wouldn't become eminently useless if I swap to any other model provider.

numbers•about 1 hour ago

wow, great partnership for Work Louder but man, I have a micropad from work louder, it's basically just a weird layout for a macropad.

Aboutplants•about 1 hour ago

Wow, they are going to sell dozens of these!

chronogram•about 1 hour ago

So it's like a more limited Streamdeck.

cphoover•about 1 hour ago

Seems a bit silly (especially given how easy LLM's make building such an accessory)

rvz•about 1 hour ago

It's just a keyboard.

Nothing to see here.

ofjcihen•about 1 hour ago

Is this the moat?

onlyrealcuzzo•about 1 hour ago

Is this the Jony Ive device?

It looks very sus like an Apple product.

joshstrange•about 1 hour ago

It looks nothing like an Apple product and no, it's not part of the io/Ive partnership.

system2•about 1 hour ago

Why not a Stream Deck? I own 3 stream decks, and they are incredibly useful. Not only for coding, but windows controlling, shortcuts for anything. And the best part is that there are small screens you can customize.

Oras•about 1 hour ago

I had to check the calendar as I thought it’s April fool. What’s the point of this? Isn’t that like the meme of stackoverflow keyboard?

whalesalad•about 1 hour ago

I ordered one because I lack impulse control.

LetsGetTechnicl•about 1 hour ago

$230 for essentially a fancy numpad that's only useful for one tool? Welcome to the AI revolution

adamrezich•about 1 hour ago

> Flick the joystick to launch common Codex workflows like reviewing a PR, debugging an error, or refactoring code.

Uh… what?

mil22•about 1 hour ago

Finally! Definitive, tangible, tactile proof that we're near the top of the bubble. /s