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Published · transcript-backedAlexander Embiricos: belief
14 Dec 2025 Lenny's Podcast Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)
“Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. We think of Codex as just the beginning of a software engineering teammate.”
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- Alexander Embiricos
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- 14 Dec 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…You lead work on Codex. Codex is OpenAI's coding agent. We think of Codex as just the beginning of a software engineering teammate. It's a bit like this really smart intern that refuses to read Slack, doesn't check Datadog unless you ask it to. I remember Karpathy tweeted the gnarliest bugs that he runs into that he just spends hours trying to figure out nothing else has solved, he gives it to Codex, lets it run for an hour and it solves it.…
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