Codex

“We have way, way more users than Cloud Code, for instance, or Codex. We have 700,000 users because we've been doing this for Five years.”

“The desire and demand for software, both to make it and to consume it, is dramatically more than the supply that we have today, and I think there is a developer and developer adjacent archetype for whom Cursor is going to be perfect, Codex as an app, Codex as …”

“We've noticed as we build Codex that the best, like, the best interfaces for Codex to do work are also tend to be the best interfaces for humans.”

“So we recently rolled out a change where in the API, like, those models are served, like, 40% faster, and in Codex they're served, like, a quarter fast, 25% faster.”

“I think that from what we've seen, and you know, I would defer to my research team on this, but I feel like we feel like we have plenty enough data to build really good coding models.”

“And so I think we're definitely going to see people with like a free chat GPT plan coming in and just like building simple things where they otherwise might have gone to a specialized tool.”

“When we look at how often, ah, you know, codex users are using codex, it's like kind of this, like, tens of times kind of range.”

“Nearly all code at OpenAI is reviewed by Codex automatically whenever you push it to a good repo.”

“It runs on Sonnet three. I mean sorry, four, seven, and maybe a little bit of Opus. There is no way we're going to switch the model. This is dialed in. It works. Now we're going to have to deal with QA when it goes to four, eight and five. There's a little bit…”

“But now it looks like compute constraint is a real thing in 26 and early 27. You have that asset. Maybe you figure out how to deploy that aggressively with Codex. So there's buttons you can press, there's things you can do if you focus and do them.”

“I have Slack channels and WhatsApp groups where people on the weekend are just like working with Cloud Code or Codex building stuff, and they're public company CEOs.”

“If you think about the hype Period that we got with, like, Claude code and codex towards the end of 25, early 26, a lot of it was driven by how much free tokens they were given out, how much, you know, every other day they're like, oh, it's 50% more tokens or …”

“Replit, if you have a complex feature, Replit builds it in Claude, Sonnet, not Open, it builds it in Sonnet to save money, and then it has Codex come in and check the work. It has both of them.”

“My prediction would be agents that are like completely autonomous software engineers. Today, I think we're all using Tools like CloudCode or Codex to write code, but not as literal software engineers.”

“Yeah, so we have an internal AI policy to make sure that we're only using enterprise account, that there's not sensitive things being uploaded, etc. I think that's really important. And then within those guidelines, most of our engineers are using cloud code a…”

“We have software engineers who are completely AI-pilled and using Cloud Code, Codex, our own internal agent we call Pinecone that we used to run much of the company on, and they estimate they are between three and 20 times more productive in terms of features …”

“Codex is like a hundred people making that thing better”