How OpenAI Built Its Coding Agent
OpenAI’s Codex has already shipped hundreds of thousands of pull requests in its first month. But what is it really, and how will coding agents change the future of software?
In this episode, General Partner Anjney Midha goes behind the scenes with one of Codex’s product leads- Alexander Embiricos - to unpack its origin story, why its PR success rate is so high, the safety challenges of autonomous agents, and what this all means for developers, students, and the future of coding.
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro: The Vision for AI Agents
1:25 Codex’s Origin and Naming
3:20 Early Prototypes and Agent…
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