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What

OpenAI's Codex toolchain, built on GPT-5.5, spans every major platform — CLI, macOS and Windows desktop, iOS and Android mobile, and VS Code — with Greg Brockman now confirmed as permanent product chief overseeing ChatGPT, Codex, and the Developer API by Wired [10] and TechCrunch [11], removing prior 'reportedly' ambiguity about the organizational commitment to platform convergence. That appointment landed four days before Google I/O 2026, where Sundar Pichai declared the opening of the 'agentic Gemini era' [18] in what Engadget described as an 'almost completely' AI-focused conference [19], confirming OpenAI's timing as strategic rather than coincidental. NVIDIA published infrastructure documentation confirming GPT-5.5 powers Codex on NVIDIA hardware [9], while five independent sources continue to challenge whether SWE-bench scores predict production outcomes and community practitioners document 30% workflow efficiency gains alongside same-day production deployments.

Why it matters

Brockman's confirmed permanent appointment [10][11] converts the platform convergence thesis from organizational speculation into a durable structural commitment, sharpening the enterprise procurement question of whether buying Codex means accepting a bet on a broader work-automation platform. Google I/O's 'agentic Gemini era' framing [18] confirms that the developer agentic tools race is now a defined two-company competition with both sides having made their structural moves public — making the next 90 days of feature and pricing decisions consequential for enterprise lock-in timelines.

Open questions

  • Google I/O 2026 declared the 'agentic Gemini era' [18][20] and was described as almost completely AI-focused [19] — what specific coding agents or developer tools did Google announce that now compete directly with Codex on autonomous task completion, computer use, and benchmark performance?

  • NVIDIA documented that GPT-5.5 powers Codex on NVIDIA infrastructure [9] — does this infrastructure partnership affect the pricing sustainability question raised by Tomasz Tunguz's 'Unsustainable Subsidy' analysis [8], and does it change the cost trajectory for the 80% subsidy community sources report [6]?

  • OpenAI's Preparedness Framework contains a clause allowing safety requirements to be adjusted if rivals release high-risk AI [49] — given that Google I/O 2026 produced a full wave of agentic AI announcements [18], does the activation logic of this clause create new compliance uncertainty for enterprise Codex customers who need stable safety guarantees?

  • Five independent sources challenge SWE-bench's production validity [36][37][38][39][40] and SWE-ABS results are gaining LinkedIn amplification [41] — with Google's competing agentic tools now announced, will enterprise procurement conversations shift to a new benchmark framework, or will SWE-bench persist as the default reference despite documented limitations?

Narrative

OpenAI's Codex toolchain, powered by GPT-5.5 (formally announced April 23, 2026 with official benchmarks of 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, 73.1% on an internal Expert-SWE metric, and 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro [1]), achieves full platform coverage across CLI, macOS and Windows desktop applications with native sandboxes, iOS and Android mobile apps, and a VS Code extension [2][3][4]. The model is classified 'High' on biological/chemical and cybersecurity capabilities under OpenAI's Preparedness Framework, with a system card published at the Deployment Safety Hub [5][1]. Official API pricing stands at $5/$30 standard and $30/$180 Pro per million tokens [1], though the economic picture is contested by simultaneous reports of an 80% subsidy [6], a price doubling [7], and investor analysis characterizing the current model as unsustainable [8]. NVIDIA's infrastructure blog confirms that GPT-5.5 powers Codex on NVIDIA hardware [9], adding a supply-chain dimension to both the capability and pricing sustainability discussions.

The defining organizational development is the confirmed permanent appointment of co-founder Greg Brockman as product chief overseeing ChatGPT, Codex, and the Developer API. Wired [10], TechCrunch [11], and at least five other publications [12][13][14][15][16] reported the unification, with major outlets confirming Brockman's role as permanent rather than provisional. The announcement arrived four days before Google I/O 2026 [17], where Sundar Pichai declared the conference as the opening of the 'agentic Gemini era' [18] in what Engadget described as an 'almost completely' AI-focused event [19]. Google's developer keynote detailed platform-wide agentic computing updates across Chrome, Gemini, and developer tools [20][21], and AI builder communities framed the announcements as defining what developers should build next [22]. The competitive timing — OpenAI's structural unification four days before Google's agentic platform declaration — establishes the developer agentic tools market as a defined two-company race. Analysts at MindStudio had framed the Codex/ChatGPT convergence as a strategic 'agentic super app' [23]; the Brockman permanent appointment validates that framing as documented organizational architecture, and financial media has begun treating it as a capital-allocation signal: PYMNTS covers OpenAI's product strategy rework around a desktop super app [24], and commercial real estate investor guides cite the convergence as a relevant factor for sector capital decisions [25].

The practitioner record for GPT-5.5 xhigh (the highest compute tier) centers on Simon Willison's documented production use cases: diagnosing a concurrency-triggered segfault via a minimal Dockerfile, building Datasette's official blog, prototyping a content-security-policy experiment, and shipping a configurable rate-limiting plugin to production the same day it was written [26][27][28][29]. Reddit communities report roughly 30% workflow efficiency gains [30], and independent compute-tier testing by Artificial Analysis and community testers finds xhigh materially outperforms the $200 Pro tier [31][32][33]. Computer-use capabilities — Codex autonomously controlling desktop applications and browsers — are officially documented with more than 90 application plugins [34], and community observers describe this mode as a step-change [35]. The benchmark validity debate has matured into a converging five-source critique: OpenAI's official announcement cites SWE-Bench Pro as a primary signal [1], while MindStudio argues those scores do not predict production merge rates [36], a practitioner blog documents the production gap [37], an arXiv paper proposes a production-derived alternative [38], UTBoost identifies coverage gaps in SWE-bench Verified [39], and the SWE-ABS adversarial paper exposes inflated success rates across the benchmark family [40]. SWE-ABS results are now being amplified by practitioners on LinkedIn [41], extending the critique from academic channels into professional networks.

GPT-5.5's safety classification drew sustained multi-community attention when OpenAI published Preparedness Framework 2.0 [42][43], triggering analysis from Zvi Mowshowitz [44], LessWrong [45], the EA Forum [46], METR's cross-industry policy comparison [47], and international policy coverage from Digital Watch Observatory [48]. A provision identified by TechCrunch as allowing OpenAI to adjust safety requirements if rivals release high-risk AI [49] has drawn particular scrutiny — a clause whose status in the 2026 framework update remains publicly unconfirmed, and whose relevance is sharpened by Google I/O 2026's wave of agentic AI announcements [18]. Cursor is simultaneously quoted approvingly in OpenAI's GPT-5.5 launch communication, describing the model as 'noticeably smarter and more persistent' with tool use that 'stays on task for significantly longer without stopping early' [1], while maximalist community commentators claim Codex has made Cursor obsolete [50] — a factual paradox that systematic multi-tool comparisons have not resolved [51][52].

Timeline

  • 2025-04-15: TechCrunch reports that OpenAI's Preparedness Framework contains a clause allowing the company to adjust its safety requirements if a rival lab releases high-risk AI — a competitive flexibility provision that becomes a focal point when the framework is updated in 2026 [49]
  • 2026-03: SWE-ABS paper submitted to arXiv, using adversarial benchmark strengthening to expose inflated success rates in test-based AI coding benchmarks — a fifth independent data point in the multi-source critique of SWE-bench's production validity [40][103][104]
  • 2026-04-09: Blog post at tianpan.co documents the production gap between SWE-bench scores and agentic coding outcomes — predating GPT-5.5's formal announcement and establishing the benchmark-validity concern as a pre-existing practitioner observation [37]
  • 2026-04-16: OpenAI announces major Codex update enabling the AI agent to directly control desktop applications — the capability community observers would later describe as 'computer use' [114]
  • 2026-04-23: OpenAI formally announces GPT-5.5 with official benchmarks (82.7% Terminal-Bench 2.0, 73.1% Expert-SWE internal, 58.6% SWE-Bench Pro) and API pricing ($5/$30 standard, $30/$180 Pro per million tokens); model classified 'High' on bio/chem and cybersecurity under Preparedness Framework; GPT-5.5 reportedly contributed to a Ramsey number proof verified in Lean; system card published at Deployment Safety Hub [1][5]
  • 2026-04-24: Security-focused press covers GPT-5.5's expanded cybersecurity safeguards; dedicated security guides appear from multiple publishers [88][89][87]
  • 2026-04-28: CUA project released, enabling autonomous control of macOS applications in the background — an early signal of the desktop-agent direction Codex would later expand into [115]
  • 2026-05-12: OpenAI publishes Parameter Golf retrospective describing mass AI agent participation and machine-speed propagation of invalid strategies; Datasette 1.0a29 released with Willison crediting Codex CLI (GPT-5.5 xhigh) with generating a minimal Dockerfile that reproduced a concurrency-triggered segfault [53][26]
  • 2026-05-13: Willison publishes CSP allow-list proof-of-concept built with GPT-5.5 xhigh; Datasette project launches an official blog built using Codex desktop, highlighting the Markdown transcript export feature [27][28]
  • 2026-05-14: datasette-ip-rate-limit 0.1a0 released and deployed to production by Codex (GPT-5.5 xhigh) same day; OpenAI deploys Codex to ChatGPT mobile on iOS and Android in preview; coverage spans US, South African, and Chinese technology press [29][4][91][92][93][94][95][96][80][81]
  • 2026-05-16: Greg Brockman confirmed as permanent product chief overseeing ChatGPT, Codex, and Developer API — reported by Wired, TechCrunch, and multiple other outlets — four days before Google I/O 2026; community observers note Codex has evolved into a full desktop environment agent [17][12][13][11][14][15][16][10][66][68]
  • 2026-05-18: Reddit community describes Codex computer use as 'INSANE'; official developer documentation confirms 90+ app plugins; community post documents using ChatGPT mobile to remotely operate Codex desktop; YouTube video demonstrates browser control capabilities [113][116][70][71][55][34][82][35]
  • 2026-05-19: Grok explicitly positions itself against Codex, citing speed, agentic tool use, and long context as differentiating attributes [112]
  • 2026-05-19: Google I/O 2026 opens with Sundar Pichai declaring the 'agentic Gemini era'; the conference is described as almost completely AI-focused, with developer keynote covering platform-wide agentic computing updates across Chrome, Gemini, and developer tools [18][21][117][20][64][65][19][22][118][119]
  • 2026-05-20: Published 20-task comparison finds GPT-5.5 Pro tier losing on 14 tasks; Artificial Analysis publishes multiple compute-tier comparisons including GPT-5.5 xhigh vs GPT-5.4 Pro xhigh; Reddit community independently tests full compute-tier ladder [32][33][72][73][31]
  • 2026-05-21: Pricing transparency surfaces and becomes contested: official Codex pricing pages published; community report of 80% subsidy relative to GPT-5.4; LinkedIn post reports price doubling; Tomasz Tunguz publishes 'The Unsustainable Subsidy'; YouTube analysis characterizes GPT-5.5 as 25x more expensive than open models at unsubsidized rates [120][84][6][57][58][85][8][7]
  • 2026-05-22: Competitive debate crystallizes into systematic content; Codex confirmed on Windows with native sandbox, completing full platform coverage; LinkedIn post characterizes Windows launch as 'OpenAI's Windows Neglect: A Threat to Enterprise Dominance'; UTBoost and MindStudio analyses both argue SWE-bench scores do not predict production performance [98][121][99][50][74][2][3][51][105][106][107][52][108][36][39][90]
  • 2026-05-23: OpenAI's Preparedness Framework 2.0 receives multi-community AI safety scrutiny from Zvi Mowshowitz, LessWrong, EA Forum, and METR; MindStudio frames the Codex/ChatGPT convergence as an 'agentic super app' for builders; systematic multi-agent comparison articles published; pricing comparison including Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2 enters the competitive reference frame [23][122][123][46][44][47][124][45][86][110][111]
  • 2026-05-25: PYMNTS and CRE investor media adopt super app framing; Digital Watch Observatory covers OpenAI's safety rules update; SWE-ABS benchmark results gain LinkedIn amplification; NVIDIA publishes blog confirming GPT-5.5 powers Codex on NVIDIA infrastructure [48][25][24][41][9]

Perspectives

Simon Willison

Active, approving practitioner who uses Codex CLI and desktop with GPT-5.5 xhigh as the primary implementation tool for complete deliverables — debugging, security prototyping, infrastructure, and deployed production plugins — treating it as the lead implementer, not a supplement

Evolution: Consistent and deepening across the thread; each documented use case is more production-critical than the last, from blog scaffolding to a same-day-deployed rate-limiter

[26][27][28][29]

OpenAI

Expanding the toolchain's surface area with official benchmark documentation, safety classifications, updated Preparedness Framework, and pricing transparency while disclosing emergent risks; formally published the GPT-5.5 system card at a dedicated Deployment Safety Hub; internally reliant on Codex tooling; computer use capabilities officially documented with 90+ plugins; unified ChatGPT, Codex, and Developer API under Greg Brockman as a permanent organizational commitment to platform convergence

Evolution: Brockman's permanent appointment, confirmed by Wired and TechCrunch, removes the 'reportedly' qualifier from prior coverage — the platform convergence is now a documented permanent structural decision, not a provisional reorganization

[53][4][54][55][56][57][58][1][3][59][60][61][62][5][43][34][63][42][17][11][10][9]

Greg Brockman

Confirmed permanent product chief overseeing ChatGPT, Codex, and the Developer API — the organizational anchor of OpenAI's platform convergence strategy

Evolution: New named perspective this pass: previously part of the OpenAI organizational story; Wired and TechCrunch now frame him as a named executive with a permanent title, making him a distinct voice in the platform narrative

[12][13][11][14][15][16][10][17]

Google / Sundar Pichai

Declaring the 'agentic Gemini era' at Google I/O 2026, positioning Google's full developer platform — Chrome, Gemini, and developer tools — as a unified agentic computing environment competing directly with OpenAI's Codex/ChatGPT platform

Evolution: New voice this pass: Google I/O 2026 occurred after the previous synthesis, providing the first direct competitive counter-positioning to OpenAI's Brockman unification at the platform architecture level

[18][21][20][64][65][19][22]

NVIDIA

Infrastructure validator: published a blog confirming that GPT-5.5 powers Codex on NVIDIA hardware, providing supply-chain documentation for the model's deployment at scale

Evolution: New named voice this pass: NVIDIA's infrastructure blog establishes the company as a documented infrastructure partner, adding a supply-chain dimension to both the capability and pricing sustainability discussions

[9]

Cursor

Approving early tester: officially quoted in OpenAI's GPT-5.5 announcement describing the model as 'noticeably smarter and more persistent than GPT-5.4' with stronger coding performance and more reliable tool use that 'stays on task for significantly longer without stopping early'

Evolution: Consistent; Cursor's official endorsement in OpenAI's launch communication is notable given that Cursor is simultaneously named as a Codex-killed competitor by maximalist commentators elsewhere in the thread

[1]

Community practitioners and observers (Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News, LinkedIn)

Broadly enthusiastic — describing GPT-5.5 as making workflows ~30% more efficient and computer use as 'INSANE' — while simultaneously conducting empirical testing of compute tiers, tracking real-world PR performance, and exploring remote computer-use workflows from mobile devices

Evolution: Consistent; SWE-ABS benchmark results are now being amplified by practitioners on LinkedIn [18854], extending the critique's reach from academic channels into professional networks

[66][67][68][69][70][71][32][33][72][73][74][30][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][35][41][83]

Tomasz Tunguz and pricing/economics analysts

Characterize the current pricing environment as unsustainable: community reports of an 80% subsidy sit alongside reports of a price doubling, while a separate analysis characterizes GPT-5.5 as 25x more expensive than open models at unsubsidized rates — together suggesting the adoption-first pricing strategy is under visible pressure

Evolution: Consistent from prior period; NVIDIA's infrastructure documentation adds a supply-chain cost variable to the analysis that prior pricing discussions did not include

[84][6][85][8][7][86][9]

Security-focused publications (Help Net Security, Lushbinary, TechJack Solutions, Digital Watch Observatory)

Confirmatory but safety-first: reporting GPT-5.5's 'High' cybersecurity capability classification and expanded safeguards as the lead story, treating the model's security posture as the central angle rather than its developer utility

Evolution: Consistent; Digital Watch Observatory adds international policy coverage of the safety rules update, broadening this voice beyond Anglophone security press

[87][88][89][5][48]

AI safety community (Zvi Mowshowitz, LessWrong, EA Forum, METR)

Engaging substantively with Preparedness Framework 2.0, with particular concern about the competitive adjustment clause — a provision allowing OpenAI to lower its safety bar if rivals release high-risk AI; METR's cross-industry comparison provides context on whether OpenAI's posture is typical or outlying among frontier labs

Evolution: Consistent from prior pass; the occurrence of Google I/O 2026 sharpens the relevance of the competitive adjustment clause by providing a concrete recent example of a rival releasing major agentic AI capabilities

[46][44][47][45][49][48][18]

MindStudio

Advancing two distinct arguments: first, that SWE-bench scores do not predict production merge rates; second, that builders should plan for OpenAI converging Codex and ChatGPT into a unified 'agentic super app' — a strategic framing that positions OpenAI's direction as a platform play rather than a coding-tool upgrade

Evolution: The Brockman permanent appointment confirmed by Wired and TechCrunch further validates MindStudio's super app thesis — the prediction has become documented permanent organizational architecture

[36][23][10][11]

Financial and investment media (PYMNTS, AI Consulting Network / CRE investors)

Adopting the super app framing to analyze OpenAI's product strategy rework as a capital-allocation and sector-disruption signal, with CRE investors specifically being briefed on the Codex/ChatGPT/desktop convergence as a relevant factor for commercial real estate decision-making

Evolution: Consistent from prior pass; the confirmation of Brockman's permanent appointment strengthens the capital-allocation thesis these outlets are advancing

[25][24]

Enterprise critics (LinkedIn / Matt Furnari)

Critical: characterizes the Windows launch as evidence of 'OpenAI's Windows Neglect: A Threat to Enterprise Dominance,' arguing that delayed or inadequate enterprise-grade Windows support undermines OpenAI's position in corporate environments

Evolution: Consistent from prior pass; remains a minority critical voice against broadly confirmatory Windows coverage

[90]

Mainstream technology press (The Verge, TechCrunch, Wired, 9to5Mac, Android Authority, VentureBeat, Memeburn, 36kr, TechTimes)

Confirmatory and descriptive — reporting mobile rollout, desktop app launches, Windows expansion, and the Brockman permanent appointment as significant platform milestones without editorial skepticism; coverage has spread beyond Anglophone outlets

Evolution: Wired and TechCrunch join coverage of the Brockman story, elevating it from a TechTimes-only report to multi-outlet confirmation by major tech press; the 'permanent' characterization is a meaningful upgrade in evidential weight

[4][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][17][11][10]

Competitive skeptics (LinkedIn, OpenAI community forum)

Argue that Codex and Claude Code do not replace Copilot and Cursor because autonomous task completion and IDE-integrated inline assistance occupy fundamentally different workflow positions — one handles end-to-end tasks, the other handles in-editor completion

Evolution: Consistent; the Brockman permanent appointment and Google I/O's agentic platform declarations add pressure to this position by suggesting both OpenAI and Google intend to converge workflow modes rather than maintain the distinction

[98][99][10][18]

Maximalist advocates (YouTube, community)

Declare Codex has killed Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot as competitors, framing it as category-defining displacement rather than a complementary tool

Evolution: Consistent stance; Google I/O 2026 introduces Google's agentic platform as a new competitive force that the maximalist narrative has not yet addressed

[50][77]

Benchmark validity critics (MindStudio, UTBoost/Medium, tianpan.co, arXiv, SWE-ABS)

Argue that SWE-bench scores do not reliably predict real-world production merge rates, that SWE-bench Verified has test coverage gaps despite expert review, and that adversarial augmentation exposes inflated success rates — forming a convergent five-source critique of the primary benchmark practitioners use to compare AI coding tools

Evolution: SWE-ABS results are now being amplified on LinkedIn, extending the critique from academic and vendor-analysis channels into practitioner professional networks — a diffusion step that could accelerate impact on enterprise procurement conversations

[100][101][36][37][38][39][102][40][103][104][41]

Systematic comparison publishers (arXiv, wavespeed.ai, digitalapplied.com, wyeworks.com, YouTube, Artificial Analysis, Built In, birjob.com)

Producing structured multi-tool analyses that position Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Devin, OpenHands, Aider, and Cline against each other on specific dimensions, including tier-level performance comparisons; creating a more rigorous evidence base than anecdote-driven community posts

Evolution: Consistent; no new publisher additions this pass

[51][105][106][107][52][108][109][31][110][111]

Grok / xAI

Competitive: positions itself against Codex by name, citing speed, agentic tool use, and long context as differentiating attributes

Evolution: Consistent; no new positioning items in this cycle

[112]

Tensions

  • AI agents in open competitions lower barriers and accelerate experimentation, but enable machine-speed propagation of invalid strategies — requiring AI-assisted review infrastructure that human-paced oversight was not designed to provide, raising unresolved questions about attribution and competitive fairness [53]
  • Practitioners treat GPT-5.5 xHigh as qualitatively superior and deploy it in production; empirical comparisons including Artificial Analysis find xHigh materially outperforms the $200 Pro tier; but OpenAI has not published formal documentation distinguishing these tiers — a tension between accumulating empirical evidence and absent official specification that community forum threads, YouTube tier tests, and third-party benchmarking are filling informally [32][33][72][68][29][78][79][31]
  • Grok positions speed and agentic capability as its advantages over Codex, while community observers describe Codex's computer-use mode as a step-change — an implicit disagreement about which system leads on the agentic dimension, now complicated by Google declaring the 'agentic Gemini era' at I/O 2026 and introducing its own agentic developer platform [112][71][113][18]
  • Competitive skeptics argue Codex occupies a different workflow position from Cursor and Copilot and does not replace them, while maximalist advocates declare Codex has killed those competitors outright — a direct disagreement about market displacement versus workflow complementarity that a growing body of systematic comparison content has not resolved, and that the Brockman permanent appointment may intensify by confirming OpenAI's intent to converge workflow modes [98][99][50][51][105][52][10]
  • Community reports of an 80% GPT-5.5 subsidy now sit alongside reports that OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5 prices and Tomasz Tunguz's 'Unsustainable Subsidy' analysis — an unresolved three-way tension about whether current pricing reflects a subsidy that has already been withdrawn, one still in place, or one never accurately characterized; NVIDIA's infrastructure documentation adds a supply-chain cost variable not previously in the analysis [84][6][85][8][7][9]
  • OpenAI cites SWE-Bench Pro scores as the primary performance signal in GPT-5.5's official announcement, while five independent sources — MindStudio, UTBoost, tianpan.co, an arXiv production-derived alternatives paper, and the SWE-ABS adversarial paper — form a converging multi-source critique arguing those scores do not predict production merge rates and that the benchmark inflates success rates under adversarial testing, creating a direct methodological conflict with implications for enterprise tooling procurement [1][36][37][38][39][40][51][105][52][108]
  • Cursor is simultaneously quoted approvingly in OpenAI's GPT-5.5 launch communication as an enthusiastic early adopter describing the model as transformative, and named by maximalist commentators as a competitor Codex has rendered obsolete — a factual paradox about whether Cursor treats GPT-5.5 as a threat or a platform [1][50]
  • Enterprise critic Matt Furnari characterizes the Windows launch as 'OpenAI's Windows Neglect: A Threat to Enterprise Dominance,' while windowsforum.com and mainstream tech press report the Windows native sandbox as a milestone completing Codex's platform coverage — a disagreement about whether the Windows deployment is competitive or inadequate for enterprise use [90][2][3]
  • OpenAI's Preparedness Framework contains a clause allowing safety requirements to be adjusted if rivals release high-risk AI — a competitive flexibility provision that the AI safety community argues could create a race-to-the-bottom dynamic, while OpenAI's position is that the framework strengthens accountability; the 2026 update has not publicly clarified whether this provision was preserved or modified, and Google I/O 2026's wave of agentic AI announcements makes the clause's activation conditions more immediately plausible [49][44][45][47][42][43][48][18]
  • MindStudio frames the Codex/ChatGPT convergence as a strategic 'super app' platform play, and OpenAI's confirmed permanent Brockman appointment provides organizational validation of that framing, while competitive skeptics maintain that coding agents and general work automation occupy fundamentally different workflow positions — a tension that the permanent appointment sharpens rather than resolves [23][63][10][11][17][24][99]

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