Ambrosino: AI apps must build native memory instead of user mind palaces
Andrew Ambrosino · Why OpenAI is merging Codex and ChatGPT and the future of knowledge work | Andrew Ambrosino · Jun 28, 2026 · at 48:23
Andrew Ambrosino, lead of OpenAI's Codex desktop app, discusses productizing common user workarounds into first-class app primitives.
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“And I think memory is sort of in the shape where we've had a lot of people and a lot of people at other companies too are like, well, I set up an obsidian base or a notion area and I tell it how to basically build my mind palace and how to put, it's like, eh, I don't know if everyone, like you shouldn't have to do that. Like there should be a memory feature that does that for you.”
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