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Published · transcript-backedAndrew Ambrosino: belief
28 Jun 2026 Lenny's Podcast OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
“The least that we can do is make it so that if you don't know how to do something in the app, that you can just ask it. I don't think that's enough, but I think that's the least we can do.”
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- Andrew Ambrosino
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- 28 Jun 2026
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…Great. Yeah. And the app will say it'll set it up for you. If it doesn't have a Slack connector, it'll say, "Can I add the Slack connector? Yes or no?" You can hit yes to that. The least that we can do is make it so that if you don't know how to do something in the app, that you can just ask it. I don't think that's enough, but I think that's the least we can do. Yeah. A good example of this, I built this little app that filters spammy email from my inbox. So every email that comes in, and I built this in Codex, every email that comes in, it looks at it and decides is this unsolicited, kind of cold emaily stuff that I don't want to look at? And labels it and puts it somewhere else. And to set that up, one of the steps was you have to go into the Google Cloud console and set up all these hub, sub, hubbub, API things, and triggers. I don't know if you've ever used that interface. It's so annoying and slow.…
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