OpenAI has shipped Sites inside Codex, a feature that lets any team member build and deploy a functional web application without leaving the platform. Hosting, authentication, storage, and database support are bundled in. No separate infrastructure setup required.
The use cases shown are concrete: executive business review prep, event coordination, internal investment decision tools. These are not toy demos. They are the kind of recurring, high-effort internal projects that currently eat engineering time or get abandoned in slide decks.
What makes this worth reading in full is the access model. The pitch is that non-engineers can ship secure apps and share them across a workspace. The real question the piece forces is what that means for how teams staff and scope internal tooling work going forward.
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