Codex: The Coding Collaborator — The OpenAI Podcast
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When autocomplete became a teammate, a new era of coding began. This condensed 5-minute summary (original 50-minute episode) with host Andrew Mayne and guests Greg Brockman and Thibault Sottiaux maps how Codex evolved from simple completions into agentic coding collaborators. Learn why the “harness” — the tools, loops, and integrations that let models act on their environment — matters as much as model intelligence, and how latency, permission models, and modalities (IDE, CLI, cloud agents) shape adoption. Takeaways include practical features like agents.md, milestones where Codex handled multi-hour refactors and code review, and the tradeoffs between compute, safety, and scalability. Topics covered: Codex, AI-assisted coding, agents, machine learning, ethics and alignment, productivity, and engineering design. Hosts: Andrew Mayne; Guests: Greg Brockman, Thibault Sottiaux. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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