OpenAI Codex

“When we release codex or even internally add codex. Like it was really surprising to us. I think we recently put out some stats on this, but there was this like real inflection of like adoption among non-developers at OpenAI.”

“But honestly, you can literally just feed this video into codex and just be like, make something like this and it will do that.”

“I think that people are sleeping on how, Flexible and powerful of a tool this is. Because, okay, so it's got the image model in it, and then it also has the ability, like it has the ability to change other threads. So, like, I can have this thread message anot…”

“I'm training a model to do copy edits. And this goal is four hours, it's been going for four hours, and I just like let it go, but four hours is honestly very short, like I, over the weekend I had one or two that went for like 20 hours each, and so it's just a…”

“I like, I am very confident that the codex app that we released in February, if that had been ready. In November, it would have absolutely failed in the market. And the only difference was the models between November and February.”

“All of these companies are deciding that this is kind of the correct interface to interact with AI agents.”

“This is how I normally set up automations. People sometimes want to create an automation before they do it. It's just like do it once and then tell the agent to do that every time on this day. And that's a kind of a good workflow.”

“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…”

“I feel like the public metric we have was like, since August, we grew by like, 20 X. And then like, even like late in the year, we like doubled from December to now.”

“The first is I actually want to get back to cloud. When we pivoted our strategy from, like, building the cloud, like, focusing on the cloud agent last year to working interactively, the thinking was very simple. It was just, and it's kind of like what I was te…”

“I think the lesson I learned the hard way there is like, you can't make things unlimited for too long.”

“It's interesting to see like Codex's personality shine through when writing code. I would say it does the most stuff that humans don't do kind of in this alpha go sense where it's like, oh, it'll write a Python script to like modify some part of the file syste…”

“Refreshing complex UI state and Opus often will miss it if there's many files, but Codex seems to catch it.”

“Coding agents are extremely unique compared to agents for other domains in the sense that These are actually built for customizability and these are built for engineers. So coding agent is not a product which is going to solve like this top five workflows or l…”

“I don't think like if anybody's coming and seeing that, like my, I have this Concrete set of evals that I can, like, bet my life on, and then I don't need to think about anything else. Like, it's not going to work, and every new model that we're going to launc…”

“The way that we built Codex is that it just uses the shell, but in order to make that like safer and secure, we have a sandbox that the model is used to operating in.”

“What a lot of the interns would do is just, like, full YOLO mode, like, trust it to, like, write the whole feature. And it, like, it doesn't work. It, like, doesn't work sometimes. But, like, I don't know, like, 30, 40% of the time it just, like, one-shots it.”

“Our engineers recently started using codecs more than using the Anthropic tools.”

“I think the model was able, when, with multiple attempts to solve more than 90% of these coding exercises, of these two and 30 coding exercises.”

“I just think generally text to app builders are over building everything or completely setting everything up as an overbuilt tool. But actually all the features are under, under built. So if you ask for like a Shopify, a Spotify clone with Bolt, it'll spit out…”

“I just think you start here and you can think, well, at some point the, like the PR stuff, that's going to be automated. Like, I'm sure you can get bots now that if there's a successful pull request, it'll just merge it to the main branch. So like, you never h…”

“We've opened the task, we've merged it, we've closed it works on my site. I did no coding, and I did Maybe like four or five button pushes to do this.”

“Because the thing you can't do in codecs, so there's some limitations here, obviously, like you can't upload any files. You can't upload any images. You can't say make the UI look like this.”

“And it can do it and it, but it's more connected to, it's not connected to the internet. So it's like, I'm just looking at your repo and answering based on what it has, what knowledge it has to give you that response.”

“I kind of feel like this is a better place to start than a text app builder, because like I said, it's going to build a big fancy thing. And what you're going to end up in is like seeing a bunch of terminology code being written tests failing. They're all to d…”

“Twitter. The pre-Elon CEO moments academic access was allowed, legal, so we built a database of Twitter. We organized it in the form of tables. We tried to do it with the OpenAI codex models. This was even pre-GPT-III. We wrote a lot of templates.”

“We eventually built the world's most flimsy system, which was back in the day, like 4000 token context windows, like chaining prompts, trying to keep as much context from one to the other, all these different things where essentially you'd put in an app idea i…”