OpenAI Codex
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4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 14, 2025 by Alexander Embirikos · said 192 times in 12 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 103 mentions in 7 episodes 15 per episode
- OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
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2025 88 mentions in 4 episodes 22 per episode
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
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Everything said about OpenAI Codex, oldest first
Dec 14, 2025 positive
Jan 11, 2026
Badam: Relying entirely on fixed evals without team testing fails
“I don't think like if anybody's coming and seeing that, like my, I have this Concrete set of evals that I can, like, bet my life on, and then I don't need to think about anything else. Like, it's not going to work, and every new model that we're going to launc…”
Jan 11, 2026
Badam: Coding agents cannot rely solely on offline evaluation datasets
“Coding agents are extremely unique compared to agents for other domains in the sense that These are actually built for customizability and these are built for engineers. So coding agent is not a product which is going to solve like this top five workflows or l…”
Jun 28, 2026 bearish
Ambrosino: OpenAI Codex would have failed if released three months earlier
“I like, I am very confident that the codex app that we released in February, if that had been ready. In November, it would have absolutely failed in the market. And the only difference was the models between November and February.”