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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Codex comes up on the Startup Ideas Podcast, Latent Space, TBPN, Big Technology, Lenny's Podcast
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:47 John Coogan Let me tell you about Codex. 3 times in the scene
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 34:03 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine one of the hardest parts of your job is balancing this hundred billion MAU product, ChatGPT, maybe the most successful consumer product in history with Codex, which is this new thing and other new things that you guys want to try.
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 49:21 David Senra Now you built Codex, right? 5 times in the scene
Making $$$ with Grok Bot
- ▶ 18:10 Billy Howell Um, not so I haven't done it in Grokbot yet, but in like codex, this is a general agent pattern.
How I Use Skills + AI Agents to Run My Life
- ▶ 32:13 unnamed speaker We'll get that prompt in your guys' hands so you can basically just give that to Claude and it will take your existing skill folders and just build the plugin out for you in GitHub that will work in Codex and Claude Code.
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 58:13 Reed Albergotti Well, you know, PSA, like, you can just buy a super cheap phone instead of an expensive iPhone, download ChatGPT, you know, and talk to your, talk to your Codex agent and have it recreate all of your iPhone apps and, you know, just have it…
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- ▶ 3:09 unnamed speaker So ChatGPT, CodexApp, ChatGPT for work.
- ▶ 13:57 Akshay Nathan Like what is, you know, Codex obviously people love, like why, why bring these products together? 4 times in the scene
The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- ▶ 31:40 Chamath Palihapitiya Codex is excellent. 2 times in the scene
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ▶ 1:00:24 unnamed speaker So open code, codex, you have your own pool CLI tool, um, basically getting people to use it, the co-design of model harness, training it in.
Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
- ▶ 21:12 Greg Isenberg Paste it into your, you know, Claude code or codex and be like, I want to create an SEO loop. 4 times in the scene
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:14 John Coogan Codex is a powerful workspace for getting things done with AI agents, whether you're writing code, analyzing data, creating content, or automating business workflows. 3 times in the scene
Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable 5
Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100K Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:30 Clay Bavor You had, right, Claude, four, five, Codex, five, two.
- ▶ 59:34 Clay Bavor Codex five five cyber if they themselves are the solution, not, uh, kind of, uh, uh, more narrowly focused, um, cybersecurity product.
The Meta Compute Debate | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:03 John Coogan I'll tell everyone about Codex on the arms. 3 times in the scene
OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
- ▶ 0:11 Alex Kantrowitz Um, you know, there was this conversation that a super app was the wrong term for what you were doing with, um, the app that you're building, bringing Codex, which is the coding side of OpenAI's product, browser,
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 3:10:45 Greg Brockman Well, look, first of all, I'd say that this is not theoretical at this point, right, that people have been using codec. 6 times in the scene
GLM 5.2: What you need to know
- ▶ 0:26 Greg Isenberg Uh, GLM 5.2, how you should think about running local models, how that integrates to something called open router, how you can use it with your codex or cursor or cloud code.
- ▶ 7:43 unnamed speaker So if you want, if you're using codex, you can go to open router, get your open router key, and then, um, go into the provider, get the endpoint, and then go into codex, create a profile and say, Hey, I want you to install 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 unnamed speaker Like we're getting a lot more output out of plot, out of codex.
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:08 unnamed speaker Let me tell you about Codex. 3 times in the scene
Gavin Baker: SpaceX Might Be the Greatest Company of All Time
- ▶ 9:40 Gavin Baker I think that's why OpenAI is cutting codex pricing, simply because coding, you know, coding tokens are so valuable, and if you don't have enough of them, you may not be able to get into this RSI loop that, that everyone is, you know,
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:13 Aravind Srinivas why, why, why are they going all in on Codex? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 Aravind Srinivas Tools like CloudCode or Codex to write code, but not as literal software engineers.
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:43 Harry Stebbings I would love just your thoughts on some market composition that I'm struggling with, which is like when you look at cognition, you look at Claw Code, you look at Kodak, you look at Cursor now with Grok. 2 times in the scene
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 25:48 John Coogan A visual guide to the SpaceX IPO while I tell you about Codex. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:47 John Coogan Anyway, let me tell you about Codex and the Road to Olympia expansion pack, which is sponsoring this episode. 2 times in the scene
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:08 unnamed speaker And codex, right? 2 times in the scene
WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:28 unnamed speaker Anyway, let me tell you about Codex. 3 times in the scene
Become AI Native in less than 60 mins
- ▶ 36:05 Theo Tabah Or work with codecs.
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:43 unnamed speaker Um, a reason to live, a reason to exist, which is, if your options are codex and clawed code, and a neutral third party, and you all pay, you know, you pay consumption based.
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 32:11 unnamed speaker But today somebody could just spin up a Shopify cloud store, give it to cloud, give it to Codex.
Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- ▶ 15:56 Thomas Laffont And what Cloud Code and Codex are doing inside of those businesses.
Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:56 Jason Calacanis 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. 3 times in the scene
Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
- ▶ 4:56 Ranjan Roy Everyone was in the command line, you know, cranking out whatever they wanted in Claude code and then Codex, and now everyone's recognizing that, oh, wait, maybe that's not how it should work.
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 41:59 unnamed speaker Um, have you seen, did you see the Codex app? 2 times in the scene
Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- ▶ 16:44 Dick Costolo And six months later with agent decoding and codex and cloud code and et cetera, they're like, 5 times in the scene
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
SpaceX S-1, Anthropic Revenue Booms, OpenAI Cracks Erdős Problem | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:07 John Coogan Uh, Frank asked Codex for SpaceX fair value based on the S-one.
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 14:15 Alex Kantrowitz If you could print, for instance, say, integrate these systems and maybe there's a world where Claude or Codex or Gemini can handle that.
Swatch & AP Collab, Cerebras Boosts IPO Price, Trump to Visit China | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:05 unnamed speaker In codex. 2 times in the scene
Screensharing How to Start an AI Agent Business Today
- ▶ 29:36 Greg Isenberg And it's just cool that, you know, I did a video on Codex building a super app.
AI Agents: Mirage Or Real Revolution? — With Dmitry Shevelenko
- ▶ 35:24 Alex Kantrowitz The super app with codex at the, at the heart of it, that obviously will take your computer over. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- ▶ 19:16 David Sacks We're hearing really good things about Codex. 2 times in the scene
Making $$ with AI Agents
- ▶ 28:49 Greg Isenberg Codex? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:18 Greg Isenberg And one of the things we're talking about is when you're picking one of these, um, platforms, be it open claw, hyper agent, codex, whatever, you're sort of like investing in an ecosystem.
Stop using Claude. Start using Codex?
- ▶ 1:08 Riley Brown I think Codex by OpenAI, and that means if you have a ChatGPT subscription, you have access to Codex, which I think is the most powerful way to use AI agents, and we're going to learn the platform. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27 Riley Brown I've been, uh, really trying to get people, uh, to understand the difference between ChatGPT and Codex. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:54 Riley Brown Another way that I like to think about this is Claude code or this codex is like Claude code and co-work in a single product, but it's even better than that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:53 Greg Isenberg Is there that concept within Codex? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:48 Riley Brown You're using Claude code inside Codex, and you're using it with the Claude subscription, so you are getting, you're benefiting from that same, the same savings, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:50 Greg Isenberg Have you been using Codex a lot with images two point oh? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Greg Isenberg Um, I want to end on, for someone who's just getting started with Codex, if there's three or four things that they should do once they've got it installed, what would those four things be? 3 times in the scene
Thoma Bravo Loses Medallia, OpenAI Drops ChatGPT 5.5, Bob Iger Returns | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:08 John Coogan codex i like this demo of the rubik's cube gpt-five excels at writing and debugging code researching online analyzing data creating documents and spreadsheets
Anthropic’s Mythos Dilemma, Violence Against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta
- ▶ 25:51 Alex Kantrowitz It's like, oh, you know, we're supplying code code code code code through cursor codex through cursor.
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence
- ▶ 59:59 Brad Gerstner Um, if you look at what's going on with Codex, incredible ramp on Codex, fastest ramping model with 5.4, I think 5.5 or Spud, whatever we're gonna call it, it's gonna be an even faster ramp. 2 times in the scene
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 19:36 M.G. Siegler That strength with the big consumer installed base and mixed with the sort of all the work they've been doing on codex 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:07 unnamed speaker You have to figure out a consumer monetization model, and you just have to get a codex, the codex competitor to Claude out there. 2 times in the scene
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 5:55 Ryan Lopopolo Um, one interesting thing here is five two, the codex harness at the time did not have background shells in it, which means we were able to rely on blocking scripts to perform long horizon work.
- ▶ 18:29 unnamed speaker So it's codex level coding and reasoning. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:07 Ryan Lopopolo One other neat thing about this too, is when we deploy Codex security on the repo, it is able to deeply review and change
- ▶ 32:34 Ryan Lopopolo Ask codex with our repo as a reference. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:50 unnamed speaker Like Codex is really good at code base understanding, working with code bases, but companies like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, they solve a very different problem scaffold of zero to one, right?
The Public Venture Fund That 9x’d in 3 Days (Fundrise VCX) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:49 Ben Miller But, and now, you know, essentially Anthropix recent releases with Claude and then Codex and stuff has proven that was totally wrong.
Paperclip: Hire AI Agents Like Employees (Live Demo)
- ▶ 5:53 unnamed speaker So, Paperclip right now, um, best works when it's on your local machine, and especially if you already have something like Claude Code or Codex installed. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Ends Side Quests, SF Housing Market is Back, Kalshi’s $1B Prize | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:40 unnamed speaker Yeah, the other side of that is like, they clearly need to be in the harness business too, which is why Codex is accelerating.
Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
- ▶ 20:25 Remy Gaskill This, ah, when you're working within Claude code, it's called a Claude.md, when you're working within Gemini, it's called a Gemini.md, but when you're working within Codex or OpenClaude, it's an Agents.md, but it's all the same concept.
- ▶ 33:36 Remy Gaskill But I believe Codex would be the exact same.
- ▶ 42:13 Remy Gaskill So you can see here, like if we go into, um, Codex, for example, they've got skills here.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 49:05 Shawn Wang Yes, I mean, that's, that's effectively what's happening with Codex.
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 9:19 Jonas Nelle I think we found in particular with Opus four, five, four, six and codex five, three, that those were additional step changes and sort of the autonomy grade capabilities of the model to just go off and figure out the details and come back…
- ▶ 38:56 unnamed speaker Sure, it's codex high today, but like, do I care if it's suddenly switched to Opus? 2 times in the scene
Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
- ▶ 3:00 Cody Schneider So how I'm thinking about it now is like basically everything that used to be the middle work that we would do, like all of anything that I would do to touch the keyboard, I'm now passing it on to some type of agent harness, um, whether…
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 16:08 Doug O'Laughlin Oh, I also tried Codex, too, before this, like, uh, like when it was 5.2, never really got it to work in the way, seamlessly, agentically. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Today, joining us in the hot seat, we have Alexander Emberikos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Harry Stebbings So, GTM, because of the incredible brand, product execution and just codex being a freaking awesome product, or compute, inference, speed, actual, like, 2 times in the scene
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:16 John Coogan And it's like, well, it could be that, or it also could be called code, or it could be open claw or codex or spark, or like, there's a million different things going on in the AI world.
The SaaSpocalypse Is Over
- ▶ 4:55 John Coogan Well, it could be that, or it also could be Cloud Code, or it could be Open Claw, or Codex, or Spark, or like, there's a million different things going on in the AI world.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:43 unnamed speaker We just added, uh, just as a test, like you can upload a transcript of you coding a feature with Claude code or codex or whatever it is.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 0:00 Sherwin Wu 95% of engineers use Codex. 3 times in the scene
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:18 Anish Acharya Is anybody here saying, well, I should go back and use Sonnet three seven because it's cheaper, you know, or I should use something other than Opus four five or Codex
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:40 Peter Steinberger And I remember, I built all these templates based on like, oh, take a rough look at what I have and make like templates and Codex wrote it. 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Doug O'Laughlin Thinks Microsoft is OUT of the AI Race
- ▶ 19:58 Doug O'Laughlin Like, um, dude, Codex 5.2 took so long and just never billed for me. 5 times in the scene
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:16 Calvin French-Owen I think there's something very interesting here around, like, agent memory, um, and Cloud Code has sort of set itself up, and I think Codex too, by storing all your conversation history just as files, so you could imagine you, like, give… 2 times in the scene
Claude Code Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- ▶ 36:02 Shawn Wang Yeah, what we hear from, like, the Gen Z's at OpenAI, they, they just YOLO everything into Codesk.
[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI
- ▶ 5:17 Josh McGrath Um, and the same thing happens with Codex, right?
⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 6:21 Alexander Embirikos The most obvious thing that comes to mind is just like the, the explosive growth of Codex itself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:42 Lenny Rachitsky And it's interesting that there's like that approach to the Super Assistant, and then there's this Codex approach. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:51 Alexander Embirikos And like, for example, like I'm thinking of an engineer who was working on Atlas, since we were talking about it, he set up Codex so that it can like verify its own work, which is a little bit non-trivial because of the nature of the Atlas… 8 times in the scene
Michael Burry Shorts NVIDIA and Palantir & Has Defensibility Died in a World of AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:40 Harry Stebbings I think Codex is making incredible ground.
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 6:04 Mike Merrill We see codecs with GPT-V ranks at the top of the benchmark in our testing.
The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- ▶ 20:12 unnamed speaker So we have V zero close to, in my opinion, maybe a little in the eight tier, but like if I was a vibe coder, I'd go for V zero codex lovable bolt.
- ▶ 24:46 Greg Isenberg Kodak, Sam Altman.
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