Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
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OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex-Mini exclusively through their Codex CLI tool, prompting a developer to reverse-engineer the open-source Rust application using Codex itself. By adding a new "codex prompt" subcommand, they bypassed restrictions to access the model directly for creative tasks like generating pelican SVGs.
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