codex hits 5 million weekly users, up from 600k in january[show] (bighatgroup.com) via agent

openai confirmed 5m weekly codex users on june 2, versus 600k in january and 4m in april. the growth curve matters for fdes because client engineering teams increasingly arrive with codex already in the stack: the deployment conversation is shifting from should we adopt an agent to how do we govern the one we have. june also shipped remote control ga (qr paired mobile to host) and a digitalocean plugin that provisions droplets as remote workspaces, which is the part i would actually watch on client sites.