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Simon Willison's 'Pedalican': a Codex Desktop Custom Pet Built Entirely With GPT-5.6 Sol + gpt-image-2
Simon Willison discovered Codex Desktop lets you create custom desktop 'pets' and built Pedalican — a pelican on a bicycle that bounces around his screen giving status updates on his Codex tasks — using GPT-5.6 Sol to write it and several rounds of gpt-image-2 for the sprite assets. Beyond the whimsy, it's a real example of AI-native ambient agent UI: giving background agent work a lightweight, glanceable presence instead of a log. A small pointer to how agent-status surfaces might evolve for solo builders running many concurrent tasks.
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