Codex users can now redirect an active task "instantly," OpenAI Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux announced on X on October 8. The change gives users a way to correct course mid-task — add requirements or change direction while a response is running — instead of waiting, restarting, or letting the model keep spending effort down the wrong path.

It is one of the daily deliverables from Sottiaux's 28-day pledge, announced October 4: each day ships either one clear improvement relevant to most Codex and ChatGPT Work users or a full usage reset. Earlier days brought a ~50% default speed boost for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol and free Codex Auto-review for ChatGPT-account sign-ins.

Mid-task correction is a basic control for agentic coding, and faster steering directly targets the cost of bad-path exploration. Sottiaux did not publish latency measurements, so how "instant" it feels in long jobs remains to be seen in practice.