Codex and Claude Code are aimed at coders, but the pattern is useful to everyone.
It's a collection of agents working on a sandbox, able to read and modify state in the filesystem.
Whoever can make this basic use case easy to use for the mass market will unlock a lot of value.
Currently the UX for them is hard to use, but that's partially because they're very dangerous.
If you don't enable YOLO mode you have to constantly babysit it and be inundated by permissions that you'll likely stop paying attention to.
If you enable YOLO mode you could blast your foot off and not realize it.
Agent mode is like an airplane cockpit.
It's an intimidating UX precisely because it's so dangerous, and only experts should do it.
But if someone could make it safe then it could be made easy…