This «problem» has now been solved by OpenAI, by letting you use customizable «pets,» or mascots that float on top of your desktop and gives you useful status updates from Codex at work.
They can show you active threads, tell you whether Codex is running, waiting for input, or if anything needs your attention — at a glance, from different apps.
They can also be quite cute and the possibilities are basically endless.
It is even possible to make the little Finder guy, or download it from Petdex. There are also avatars for Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Goku, and a goblin and Clippy on Codex-pets.org.
Read more: Codex developers page, intrdouction on X.com, Engadget, Mashable, 9to5Mac.