Alexander Embirikos

“They actually have, like, less of a handicap than before versus a more senior career person because, you know, the divide is actually getting smaller because they've got these amazing coding agents now.”

“Especially, I think for Twitter X it's a little bit more hypey, and then Reddit is a little more negative, but real, actually. So I've started increasingly paying attention to, like, how people are talking about using codecs on Reddit, actually.”

“And as you make code even more ubiquitous, it's actually just going to be used for many more purposes. And so there's just going to be a ton more need for people with this, like humans with this competency.”

“One of the things that I'm constantly reminding myself of is that a tool like Codex sort of naturally is a tool that you would, you know, become a power user of. And so we can accidentally spend a lot of our time thinking about features that are like very deep…”

“It turns out the best way for models to use computers is simply to write code.”

“I think starting next year, we're gonna see, like, early adopters, like, starting to, like, hockey stick their productivity. And then over the years that follow, we're gonna see larger and larger companies, like, hockey stick that productivity. And then somewh…”

“I think that the current limiting factor, I mean, there's many, but I think a current underappreciated limiting factor is like literally human typing speed or human multitasking speed on like writing prompts. And like, you know, you were talking about, it's li…”

“If you're starting a new company today, and you have, like, a really good understanding and, like, network of customers that are currently underserved by AI tools, I think you're, like, you're set. Whereas if you're, like, good at building, like, you know, web…”

“Codex writes a lot of the code that helps, like, manage its training runs, the key infrastructure. You know, we move pretty fast, and so we have a Codex code review is, like, catching a lot of mistakes. It's actually caught some, like, pretty interesting confi…”