Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux

The Pragmatic Engineer · Sep 9, 2026 · 1h 13m · transcript

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Tibo Sottiaux is one of the engineers who created Codex, and today, he heads up the Core Products & Platform org at OpenAI which also includes Codex. He’s also one of the most public faces of Codex due to his…