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How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 2:56 Lenny Rachitsky I personally noticed I've moved a lot of my use cases from co-work and codex into grok pot, just like, just like very quickly, which again, feels like a really big deal and a very special moment.
- ▶ 7:36 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
- ▶ 8:45 Lenny Rachitsky So obviously there's anthropic open AI.
- ▶ 8:57 Lenny Rachitsky So there's co-work evolved out of that within the product and then codecs they've invested in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:04 Lenny Rachitsky So I tweeted about how much I love GrokBot when it launched, and a lot of people replied, they're like, wait, can't you just do all this with Codex and co-work?
- ▶ 34:28 Roman Ugarte And I, I think for good reason, I think these are primitives that had already been getting attention and product market fit by other products, you know, the open cause of the world.
- ▶ 1:06:47 Lenny Rachitsky It shouldn't have lasted because one, it's in the most competitive market in the world, competing against the fastest growing companies in history, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 4:29 Anish Acharya And yet Claude code codex lovable.
- ▶ 5:29 Lenny Rachitsky Like even seeing these crazy, um, stories about opening eyes, models, hacking, hugging face.
- ▶ 6:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
- ▶ 16:08 Lenny Rachitsky Like, I've been hearing more and more, I just saw a tweet that I think at OpenAI, the go-to-market team now is using Codex more, more of the go-to-market team is using Codex more often than even the engineering team.
- ▶ 16:08 Lenny Rachitsky Like, I've been hearing more and more, I just saw a tweet that I think at OpenAI, the go-to-market team now is using Codex more, more of the go-to-market team is using Codex more often than even the engineering team.
- ▶ 42:49 Lenny Rachitsky I saw OpenAI recently slow down their AI development. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:06 Anish Acharya And you've seen a lot of this on X, you know, people use cloud code to edit videos, you know, or codecs to
- ▶ 1:10:50 Anish Acharya You know, I mean, for example, um, when I was playing around with Codex, I had it build a slide deck for a mother's day for my wife that pulled from my text messages.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:20 Lenny Rachitsky Tara leads product for both Codex and JATGPT work at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20 Lenny Rachitsky Tara leads product for both Codex and JATGPT work at OpenAI.
- ▶ 2:30 Lenny Rachitsky So you've been at OpenAI for just about a year now, which in most places would be a very short amount of time. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:38 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
- ▶ 17:16 Tara Seshan And so there was a time where everyone internally was just like sending their codex threads, screenshots of their codex threads to each other on Slack.
- ▶ 23:58 Lenny Rachitsky To your point, the hardest part is just remembering to even to try just to be like, oh yeah, well, let me see if Codex can do this for me.
- ▶ 25:25 Tara Seshan Is this maximally accelerated is totally a OpenAI meme. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:33 Lenny Rachitsky and then there's a dropdown and there's ChatGPT and Codex. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:19 Lenny Rachitsky From cloud code to codex in the past few months. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:48 Tara Seshan everyone who's building it, obviously, as a developer, using it for development and is constantly fixing not only their own problems, but trying to listen to other people in the company's problems and user problems. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:33 Tara Seshan In codex, be like, create a site that, um, is a, I don't know, is a mafia game for my team and it will just do it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:44 Tara Seshan Um, at OpenAI, I think I still write as thinking all the time.
- ▶ 1:13:27 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, favorite or interesting AI product that you've recently discovered if ideally not open AI product, but you know, you can also go there if you want. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:36 Tara Seshan Ooh, um, I mean, of course, my favorite AI product is China TVT and using cool sites and visualize stuff in, in codex, which is amazing.
- ▶ 1:17:00 Tara Seshan who founded a company called Sky that was acquired by OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 23:13 Brian Halligan Can he convince brilliant employees to leave open AI and join him?
- ▶ 35:22 Brian Halligan And this isn't a completely perfect analogy, but like you think of OpenAI and ChetGPT and its consumer app is doing incredible and they're doing lots and lots and lots and lots of other things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:11 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 0:35 Sherwin Wu There's a team that's actually doing an experiment right now with an open AI where they are maintaining a 100% codex written code base.
- ▶ 1:12 Lenny Rachitsky Today, my guest is Sherwin Wu, head of engineering for OpenAI's API and developer platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:46 Sherwin Wu Engineering managers at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:48 Sherwin Wu Uh, all of our code is written by, by Codex, uh, at this point. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:14 Sherwin Wu Obviously not active running codex, uh, jobs. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Lenny Rachitsky You fire off all these, you know, codex agents, and then you have to keep stay on top of them. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Sherwin Wu So there's a team that that's actually doing an experiment right now, uh, with an open AI where they are basically maintaining a 100% code expert and code base.
- ▶ 15:27 Sherwin Wu Yeah, I mean, one thing is Codex reviews 100% of all of our PRs at this point, and so, uh, I actually think, so, 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:52 Lenny Rachitsky Okay, so just to, just to make sure we get, like, a barometer of today's world at OpenAI in terms of AI and code, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Sherwin Wu Uh, there's no, you know, codex for managers just, uh, yes. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 Sherwin Wu Yeah, um, I, I think a lot of the lessons that I've learned here, I don't know how specific it is to the opening API or, or some of our enterprise products in, in particular.
- ▶ 39:05 Sherwin Wu And so, you know, like, we, um, we always talk about all these, like, best practices for codecs, all these, like, codecs-built people within OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Sherwin Wu And so, you know, like, we, um, we always talk about all these, like, best practices for codecs, all these, like, codecs-built people within OpenAI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:43 Sherwin Wu And, and, and honestly, like, OpenAI API team has, like, been guilty of this, uh, where we kind of, like, took some, you know, left and right turns, uh, when we shouldn't have.
- ▶ 51:22 Sherwin Wu Like, even codecs and, like, the coding tools, I'd say, like, you know, it's, it's in the CLI. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:26 Sherwin Wu It's, and this is why I think tools like Codex tend to be quite, quite good because it's exploring and you're giving it these like open-ended things, but software engineering is fundamentally like pretty open-ended and it's not very…
- ▶ 57:23 Lenny Rachitsky Okay, uh, going in a slightly different direction, uh, having built the platform, building the API, uh, people building on API, the biggest question on people's minds is always just, uh, how do I not have OpenAI squash my idea and build… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:48 Sherwin Wu Like even, you know, we release these codex models now that are a little bit more optimized for the codex harness, but they always find their way into the API and like all of our, you know, customers end up abusing those.
- ▶ 1:05:23 Lenny Rachitsky One last question, just for folks that are thinking about building on the API or just like, oh, wait, I could do cool stuff with OpenAI's models and APIs.
- ▶ 1:05:46 Sherwin Wu The most popular one that we have right now is one called Responses API. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:32 Sherwin Wu Uh, and so next layer up, we have this thing called the agents SDK, which has also gotten extremely, extremely popular. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:37 Sherwin Wu We also have a smattering of, like, uh, evals products, like evals API, where if you want to test and, like, you know, see if your models or your, your agent or your workflow is working, uh, you can test it in a very quantitative way, um,…
- ▶ 1:11:25 Sherwin Wu Install the Codex client, play around with it.
- ▶ 1:18:50 Sherwin Wu And, uh, yeah, I mostly just tweet about, uh, OpenAI and API and some of the products that we're launching. 2 times in the scene
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 49:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:08:42 Lazar Yovanovich My go-to tool today for that is Codex, OpenAI, right?
- ▶ 1:08:42 Lazar Yovanovich My go-to tool today for that is Codex, OpenAI, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:23 Lazar Yovanovich Um, back in the day when OpenAI, um, uh, started, uh, uh, or better say, released image generation natively in the app, right? 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:14:46 Lenny Rachitsky And as much as it may feel like, okay, there's no way open AI will lose this lead.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 0:44 Zevi Arnovitz But what's even cooler is I have codex as well as cursor open.
- ▶ 39:37 Zevi Arnovitz But what's even cooler and something that I'm really proud of is I will usually do multiple reviews and I'll have Codex, which is ChatGPT's competitor to Cloud Code, as well as cursor open, and I will have each of them review the code. 4 times in the scene
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 45:52 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:12:14 Sam Lessin Uh, even, you know, my, my kind of argument from a seed perspective is like, look, is open AI a good investment or not to terrible seed investment.
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 1:33 Lenny Rachitsky Kuriti works on Codex at OpenAI and has spent the last decade building AI and ML infrastructure at Google and at Kumo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:33 Lenny Rachitsky Kuriti works on Codex at OpenAI and has spent the last decade building AI and ML infrastructure at Google and at Kumo.
- ▶ 13:46 Kiriti Badam Uh, imagine like you are a company who has like a lot of customer support tickets and why even imagine like open AI face to say exact same thing when we were launching products and there was like a huge spike of, uh, support volume as…
- ▶ 24:52 Kiriti Badam They definitely, like, no company, uh, at OpenAI we talk to is, has never had been the case that, oh, AI cannot help me in this case.
- ▶ 41:39 Lenny Rachitsky What can you share Kuriti on Codex and the Codex team of how you approach evals? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:05 Kiriti Badam Many, many bugs in OpenAI as well as like, even external customers are getting caught with this.
- ▶ 1:03:31 Lenny Rachitsky So the idea there is, uh, you'll probably be more successful building and using, uh, an agent that is able to do its own sub-agent splitting of work versus like a bunch of say codex agents where you do this task, you do that task.
- ▶ 1:19:12 Lenny Rachitsky I love that someone opened AI and just imagine you're, there's nothing else going on except just coding and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:34 Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) Um, the best part is it's a conceptual transcription tool, which means if you go to, you know, Codex and start using Whisperflow, it starts identifying variables and all of that, and it's so seamless in terms of transcription to… 4 times in the scene
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 23:32 Lenny Rachitsky So, um, Sarah Caldwell, who's a big deal at OpenAI, she told me that the framework that helped her most in her career is something that you call the J curve versus stairs, career growth framework.
- ▶ 1:21:30 Lenny Rachitsky He's a former Facebook person now at OpenAI.
- ▶ 1:26:44 Lenny Rachitsky She told me that she has this sticker on her notebook with three pieces of advice that you gave her when she started at OpenAI. 4 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 13:17 Jason Lemkin We were with, with Maggie, who's in the leadership of open AI.
- ▶ 23:19 Jason Lemkin Like Denise just went from Slack and Salesforce after 14 years to be CRO OpenAI.
- ▶ 59:55 Jason Lemkin That I'm obsolete, that I'm not going to get that role at Vercel or open AI.
- ▶ 1:11:52 Jason Lemkin Open AI still breaks the rules, right?
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 1:19:47 Matt McGinnis It's like, if you're selling the shovels, like open AI and, and Google with Gemini, you can make money.
Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- ▶ 5:04 Lenny Rachitsky That's why some of the fastest growing companies in the world, like OpenAI and Anthropic, run their billing on Metronome.
- ▶ 6:50 Sander Schulhoff We had open AI scale hugging face about 10 other AI companies sponsor it.
- ▶ 13:47 Sander Schulhoff They exfilled the OpenAI API key. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:12 Sander Schulhoff So, and the other kind of silly thing is that the, when, when you build like an automated red teaming system, you often test it on, uh, open AI models, anthropic models, Google models.
- ▶ 33:26 Sander Schulhoff Uh, and so we actually, we just released a major research paper on this alongside, uh, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic that took a, a bunch of, uh, adaptive attacks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:50 Lenny Rachitsky You know, it's like, uh, open AI won't, won't let it, won't let them do this sort of bad stuff.
- ▶ 1:13:58 Sander Schulhoff OpenAI is doing this.
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 3:15 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:05:11 Lenny Rachitsky Apparently open AI had this whole code red moment where even though open AI by far the leading AI assistant over almost a billion, I think monthly active users, like basically synonymous with AI around the world with Gemini three launching… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:21 Elena Verna And, and I would argue maybe OpenAI definitely started to do that with how many people they have on their platform, but not most of the other AI companies.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky Do lead work on Codex. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:01 Alexander Embirikos Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35 Lenny Rachitsky Today, my guest is Alexander Embirikos, product lead for Codex, OpenAI's incredibly popular and powerful coding agent. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35 Lenny Rachitsky Today, my guest is Alexander Embirikos, product lead for Codex, OpenAI's incredibly popular and powerful coding agent. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:02 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 5:24 Lenny Rachitsky I want to start with your time at OpenAI. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Lenny Rachitsky So let's talk Codex. 10 times in the scene
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