Weekly perspective · 2026-w38

The week in coding agents

OpenAI Developers' posts emphasized account switching and Codex usage visibility, while VS Code described agent-session controls and Vercel reported first-day AI Gateway adoption for Jev.[2][3][8][1]

September 26, 2026 · Sources linked beside every point

What changed

OpenAI Developers said multi-account support is now available across most plugins, framed around personal, work and side-project accounts.[2]
OpenAI Developers introduced usage visibility that breaks Codex usage down by tasks, subagents and individual chats, reachable in Settings on the desktop app for personal, Business and eligible Enterprise accounts.[3][9]
OpenAI Developers brought Appshots to Windows so ChatGPT can take context from the apps a developer is working in.[4]
OpenAI Developers added a voice agent in Codex, which it says is powered by GPT-Live-1.[5]
Visual Studio Code announced a release with new ways to work with agents, move between environments and keep sessions organized, plus agent-window background customization and a preview application badge for agent sessions needing attention.[8][6][15]
Vercel reported that Jev was adopted faster than any other model in AI Gateway history, reaching roughly 13% of teams in the first day, which it describes as 2x the GPT-5.6 family and 6x Fable 5.1.[1]

Worth trying

Teams using Codex can check the new usage breakdown to see how tasks, subagents and chats contribute before changing their workflow, per OpenAI Developers.[3][9]
Developers on Windows could try Appshots to feed app context into ChatGPT instead of copying and pasting, as described by OpenAI Developers.[4]
VS Code users could enable the preview sessions showApplicationBadge setting to be notified about new results, input requests or pull request checks, according to the VS Code team.[15]

Watch next

The reported first-day Jev adoption numbers come from Vercel's own AI Gateway and are not an independent measurement of model quality or suitability.[1]
OpenAI Developers' voice agent in Codex is an author-stated feature description, so what it does well in real repos remains unverified here.[5]
VS Code's agent release features and the showApplicationBadge setting are the vendor's own descriptions, with the badge still marked as preview.[8][15]

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