Codex and the future of coding with AI — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 6

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 15, 2025

Duration

50m

Channel

OpenAI

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

What happens when AI becomes a true coding collaborator? OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux talk about the evolution of Codex—from the first glimpses of AI writing code, to today’s GPT-5 Codex agents that can work for hours on complex refactorings. They discuss building “harnesses,” the rise of agentic coding, code review breakthroughs, and how AI may transform software development in the years ahead. Chapters 1:15 – The first sparks of AI coding with GPT-3 4:00 – Why coding became OpenAI’s deepest focus area 7:20 – What a “harness” is and why it matters for agents 11:45 – Lessons from GitHub Copilot and latency tradeoffs 16:10 – Experimenting with terminals, IDEs, and async agents 22:00 – Internal tools like 10x and Codex code review 27:45 – Why GPT-5 Codex can run for hours on complex tasks 33:15 – The rise of refactoring and enterprise use cases 38:50 – The future of agentic software engineers 45:00 – Safety, oversight, and aligning agents with human intent 51:30 – What coding (and compute) may look like in 2030 57:40 – Advice: why it’s still a great time to learn to code

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Andrew Mayne

  host

• Greg Brockman

  guest

• Thibault Sottiaux

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of OpenAI, featuring Andrew Mayne and Greg Brockman, Codex and the future of coding with AI — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 6 explores gPT-5 Codex ushers in agentic coding, refactoring, and oversight challenges The conversation traces AI coding from early GPT-3 docstring-to-function “sparks” to today’s Codex as an agentic collaborator embedded in terminals, IDEs, and GitHub.

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