Stopped by @OpenAI’s Builder Lounge (unsurprisingly one of the most popular events of the week) to hear about the latest developments in Codex. Their advice to latent adopters: spend one day trying to do *everything* with Codex - you’ll be surprised how much you can do.
Great to see you @cristineejones!
A normal person and a crackhead on the street are coalescing into a point of singularity. The schizophrenic guy flailing around has so much in common with the normal person TikTok dancing in the street.
It’s all about being as close to a builder as possible now in tech. People managers telling other engineers what to do is so antiquated. If you’re a lead and not writing code what are you doing???
AI Code generation is way more effective at smaller startups. It’s great for writing net new code or rewriting entire features. At larger companies when you’re taking features from 80% to 100% accuracy. The engineer with lots of experience becomes super valuable.
Most companies now are barely scratching the surface of what’s possible with LLMs.
Once you start to develop the mindset around how to bring determinism into a largely stochastic process it opens up the mind to what’s possible
“For our Claude Code team 95% of the code is written by Claude.” —Anthropic cofounder Benjamin Mann
One person can build 20X the code they could before
The future is here, just not evenly distributed
GPT-5 might be the worst update Open AI has ever released.
How is it possible a supposedly better model can't even adhere to simple return only this schema responses?
Page Numbers omitted by GPT-5 but maintained perfectly using GPT-4.1.
This needs to be fixed. @sama
Agents without memory of me and what I care about and all the context around me are just not as useful
We are so early it is not yet table stakes but it will be