Josh Ma: AI agents naturally infer code style without explicit instructions
Josh Ma · ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual · May 16, 2025 · at 25:09
Josh Ma, an OpenAI engineer working on ChatGPT Codex, explains why instructions in an agents.md file differ from a human-oriented README file.
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“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 all the conventions, right?”
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