OpenAI Codex

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3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 22, 2024 by Alistair Pullen · said 260 times in 55 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Aug 22, 2024 neutral
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Cosine's early prototype generated entire apps from scratch using OpenAI Codex
“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…”
Alistair Pullen Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 6:06 Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
Oct 7, 2025 positive
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OpenAI Codex successfully one-shots entire features 30% to 40% of the time
“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.”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 40:00 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
Jul 28, 2026 positive
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Nathan: OpenAI saw an inflection in Codex adoption among non-developers
“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.”
Akshay Nathan Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 7:24 OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
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