OpenAI Codex
part of OpenAI
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 21, 2025 by Aravind Srinivas · said 50 times in 16 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 41 mentions in 10 episodes 4 per episode
- We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
- OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
- Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
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2025 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman: The Future of OpenAI, ChatGPT's Origins, and Building AI Hardware · Y Combinator
- How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
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Everything said about OpenAI Codex, oldest first
Feb 21, 2025
Perplexity's first demo queried Twitter tables using OpenAI Codex
“Twitter. The pre-Elon CEO moments academic access was allowed, legal, so we built a database of Twitter. We organized it in the form of tables. We tried to do it with the OpenAI codex models. This was even pre-GPT-III. We wrote a lot of templates.”
Feb 6, 2026 bearish
Feb 6, 2026 positive
French-Owen: Codex approaches coding in unintuitive, AlphaGo-like ways
“It's interesting to see like Codex's personality shine through when writing code. I would say it does the most stuff that humans don't do kind of in this alpha go sense where it's like, oh, it'll write a Python script to like modify some part of the file syste…”