Josh Ma
Engineer, OpenAI. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Josh Ma is an engineer on OpenAI's ChatGPT Codex team, helping develop OpenAI's autonomous coding agents and developer tooling. Prior to OpenAI, he was the co-founder and CTO of Airplane and previously served as the Chief Technology Officer at Benchling.
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Everything Josh Ma said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Ma: Industry will build an agentic software engineer within two years
“Whether or not I was involved in the next two years, I think we were going, we are going to build an agentic software engineer.”
Josh Ma: Software engineering stays human-centric due to review and deployment
“As long as you see humans and AI writing it, like maybe there's a world where it's only AI's maintaining a code base and the assumptions change, but the moment you start to break that fourth wall and a human's coming in, doing code review, deploying the code, …”
Josh Ma: AI agents naturally infer code style without explicit instructions
“For agents, I don't think you have really had to tell code style. It looks at your code base and just writes code that's consistent to that. Whereas like a human's not going to take its time sorry, their time to go through the code base and you know, follow al…”
Josh Ma: ChatGPT Codex cuts off internet access during agent execution
“Once the agent starts running, right what we actually do today, and we're hoping to like evolve on this, is we'll cut off internet access because we still don't fully understand what letting loose an agent in his own environment is going to do.”
Josh Ma: Codex focuses on pushing single-shot autonomous software engineering
“I think what we see as, like, the role of Codex here is to really push Frontier on that sort of single-shot autonomous software engineering.”
Ma: ChatGPT Codex recognizes sub-directory instruction hierarchies in agents.md
“We put a lot of effort into making sure the agent, like, understand this hierarchy of instructions, right? You can put them in sub-directories, and it'll understand which ones take precedence over which others.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Josh's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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