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Fioca: AI models develop operational habits during training analogous to muscle memory
“This is one of the coolest things about, like, model training is literally, like, they develop habits. It's just like a person does. Like, if you're, like, working on some podcasting tool, right, you're really good at editing, and then somebody makes you use a…”
Disclosure
Fioca: Has not hand-written a single line of code in months
“I haven't written a single line of code by hand in months, because I know what I can trust it to do.”
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Fioca: Coding agents enable self-customizing software by writing integrations at runtime
“So now if it doesn't have a tool, it can make a tool that it needs to solve a problem, right? So that's like another layer of abstraction and it's not just coding. You can write software that has an agent that can spin up a codex instance and write a custom pl…”
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Fioca: Codex Max manages its own context window to run indefinitely
“Codex Max manages its own context window. And so it can run basically forever without you having to worry about it while it's inside of the Codex harness.”
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Fioca: Codex Max can run continuously for 24 hours or more
“Max can run for a really long time. We can go 24 hours or more. I've actually, like, sort of had it gone for more than that”
Disclosure
Fioca: OpenAI evaluates GPT-5 coding models on behavioral software engineering practices
“And so these are just best software engineering practices that turn out to be behavior characteristics, and we can measure the model's performance on those behaviors and grade it that way.”
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Fioca: GPT-5 matches Codex coding capability but adds step-by-step preambles
“With the five series, because it's more general, and it's just about as good as coding as codex for a lot of things. We've taught it to be more communicative. And so it has preambles before tool calls. It'll say things like, I'm about to go look for this.”
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Fioca: Raw frontier models resemble new PhD hires needing explicit job prompts
“I like to think of it as like we have, I mean, people say it's a PhD in, in an API, right? But you, if you know, you hire a PhD student, they don't know how to do the job. You have to give them a job description. Okay. That's a prompt, right? So now you have y…”
Disclosure
Fioca: OpenAI trains models to flexibly adapt across varied developer toolsets
“Initially, you know, our models are trained the way they were trained to use tools, and that kind of bakes in a habit, and so we've been getting the models better at using different types of tools.”
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Fioca: Codex is OpenAI's frontier coding model optimized for its harness
“Codex is, just to be clear, Codex is the frontier coding model that we have that is optimized for its harness.”
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Fioca: OpenAI Codex harness is open-source and the model is API-accessible
“Yes, that's open source, and the model is available in the API, so, so that's what they focus on.”
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Fioca: GPT-5.1 allows disabling preambles, unlike the reasoning-dependent Codex model
“So Five One, you can turn that off, you can prompt it not to do that, but the Codex model can't actually do that, and it relies on the reasoning summarizer to give you that update.”
