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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…”
Brian Fioca Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 8:37 ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
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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…”
Brian Fioca Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 13:40 ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
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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…”
Brian Fioca Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 18:30 ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
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