Alexander Emberikos

9 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2026 by Alexander Emberikos · across every show →

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Feb 21, 2026 neutral
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Emberikos: Future AI will pair conversational interfaces with bespoke power-user GUIs
“So I think what we're going to have is that we'll have chat or voice, basically conversational interface will be sort of the pillar of everything that you can talk to about anything. And then you can add into any group chat or whatever so it can, like, discove…”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 32:44 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
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Emberikos: AI will eventually assist humans tens of thousands of times daily
“I think AI should be helping us tens of thousands of times per day. You know, compute budget permitting, well, and we'll get there over time.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 6:51 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Emberikos: AI's next phase this year is executing tasks, not retrieving information
“And I think the next phase that we'll see this year is like for any task I need to do, as opposed to just get information, I go to this text box or this input and something happens that helps me, even if it's not the full task, even if it's only a small part o…”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 31:26 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 negative
Opinion
Emberikos: Enterprise AI adoption does not require forward-deployed engineers
“So, so even though I am literally hiring FDs and if you're an FD, please apply for a job with me. I actually disagree with that entirely.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 9:08 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 negative
Insight
Emberikos: Top-down enterprise AI deployment massively under-leverages AI potential
“What I've seen is that When we do these things top down, we end up, like, massively under leveraging the potential of AI in, like, helping that company.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 12:26 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 positive
Insight
Emberikos: VCs must pivot from product builders to distribution-first founders
“I think this maybe changes what kind of founder you invest in, right? Like, I think there was this maybe temporary phase where, that I liked personally as a product builder. There was this phase where you would invest in, like, the person who can just, like, b…”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 48:26 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026
Disclosure
Emberikos: Active users is OpenAI's primary success metric, not revenue
“It's actually not revenues, the primary is active users.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 30:22 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 positive
Insight
Emberikos: AI tools outside coding should be open-ended, not vertically specialized
“Is not overly build it like, okay, this is AI capabilities, but only specifically for finance, only for specifically for this workflow, but actually build a much more open-ended tool that someone can just use for any given task creatively.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 10:08 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2031
Emberikos: AI automation will create more software builders in five years
“Yeah. And I, you know, sometimes we change what terms mean, right? Like the term computer now refers to something else, but now we have the term software engineer. And so I definitely think we'll have many more builders.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 3:42 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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