Alexander Embiricos
Chapters
Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent
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Key terms: codex, openai’s, coding
With that, I bring you Alexander Embiricos, after a short word from our sponsors
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Key terms: bring, alexander, embiricos
By far, I would say the speed and ambition of working at OpenAI are just dramati
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Key terms: speed, ambition, working
This is, again, one of those things that, as you were saying, everyone wants to
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Key terms: again, those, things
It just super resonates with me
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Key terms: super, resonates, again
I think this is critically important to achieve the mission of OpenAI, which is
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Key terms: think, critically, important
And so we were just training these models for use in our first party harness tha
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Key terms: training, these, models
And again, analogy, keep coming back to it, but if you hire a teammate and you a
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Key terms: again, analogy, keep
But I will say it’s like some of how we’re thinking about this is evolving a lit
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Key terms: it’s, like, some
Do you think you win in this space? Do you think it’ll always be this kind of ra
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Key terms: think, space, it’ll
This is so interesting because with my chat with Nick Turley, the head of ChatGP
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Key terms: interesting, because, chat
So basically like you were like, “Hey, is this the two ends of this product for
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Key terms: basically, like, ends
I love how you say that because a lot of people building for engineers get reall
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Key terms: love, because, people
When I had Michael Truell, the CEO of Cursor on the podcast, he had this kind of
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Key terms: michael, truell, cursor
I love this
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Key terms: love, like, tinder
Yeah, that’s super interesting
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Key terms: yeah, that’s, super
Yeah, I mean, I think mostly I just feel much more empowered
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Key terms: yeah, mean, think
We recently shipped the Sora Android app, and that was one of the most mind-blow
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Key terms: recently, shipped, sora
These are amazing examples
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Key terms: these, amazing, examples
And I think for some time at least, we’re going to have humans curating which of
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Key terms: think, some, time
One of the things that I’m constantly reminding myself of is that a tool like Co
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Key terms: things, constantly, reminding
So I worked on Atlas for a bit
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Key terms: worked, atlas, don’t
So in my mind, part of why I’m excited for us to have a browser is that I think
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Key terms: mind, part, excited
I love that answer
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Key terms: love, answer, give
I think the other side of it though is that it’s still deeply worth understandin
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Key terms: think, other, side
This is an early idea that we’re figuring out
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Key terms: early, idea, we’re
So basically my long answer to your question, maybe boring answer is that I thin
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Key terms: basically, long, answer
It’s very rare to be working on a product that has this much impact and is at su
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Key terms: it’s, very, rare
I love how much we’re learning about your personality hearing these recommendati
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Key terms: love, much, we’re
So it’s like another way of thinking about Radical Candor
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Key terms: it’s, like, another
Thank you so much for listening
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Key terms: thank, much, listening
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