ChatGPT Codex is here - the first cloud hosted Autonomous Software Engineer (A-SWE) from OpenAI. We sat down for a quick pod with two core devs on the ChatGPT Codex team: Josh Ma and Alexander Embiricos to get the inside scoop on the origin story of Codex, from WHAM to its future roadmap.

Follow them: https://github.com/joshma and https://x.com/embirico

Full Video Episode

Timestamps

- 00:00 Introduction to the Latent Space Podcast- 00:59 The Launch of ChatGPT Codex- 03:08 Personal Journeys into AI Development- 05:50 The Evolution of Codex and AI Agents- 08:55 Understanding the Form Factor of Codex- 11:48 Building a Software Engineering Agent- 14:53 Best Practices for Using AI Agents- 17:55 The Importance of Code Structure for AI- 21:10 Navigating Human and AI Collaboration- 23:58 Future of AI in Software Development- 28:18 Planning and Decision-Making in AI Development- 31:37 User, Developer, and Model Dynamics- 35:28 Building for the Future: Long-Term Vision- 39:31 Best Practices for Using AI Tools- 42:32 Understanding the Compute Platform- 48:01 Iterative Deployment and Future Improvements

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