Transcript: 'How OpenAI’s Codex Team Uses Their Coding Agent'

The transcript of AI & I with OpenAI’s Thibault Sottiaux and Andrew Ambrosino is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:01:27
2. OpenAI’s evolving bet on its coding agent: 00:05:27
3. The choice to invest in a GUI (over a terminal): 00:09:42
4. The AI workflows that the Codex team relies on to ship: 00:20:38
5. Teaching Codex how to read between the lines: 00:26:45
6. Building affordances for a lightning-fast model: 00:28:45
7. Why speed is a dimension of intelligence: 00:33:15
8. Code review is the next bottleneck for coding agents: 00:36:30
9. How the Codex team positions itself against the competition: 00:41:24

Transcript

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Dan Shipper

Thibault. Andrew. Welcome to the show.

Thibault Sottiaux