Clippy Came Back and Is Less Chatty

Something appeared on my screen while I was in Codex the other day and I didn’t know what it was. A little animated creature, off to the side, and I don’t know which keys I pressed to bring it up. I clicked it, which made it change to voice mode and so now I couldn’t get rid of it and it was listening to me. In the end I opened ChatGPT in another window and asked how to get rid of the pet that OpenAI’s coding tool had just put on my desktop. ...

August 12, 2026 · 6 min · Kashif Nazir