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Alexander Embiricos

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  1. “The most obvious thing that comes to mind is just like the explosive growth of codecs itself. I think it's while since we bumped our sternal number, but it's like the 10xing of codecs' scale was just super fast in a matter of months. And it's like well more since then. And once you've lived through that, or at least speaking for myself, like having lived through that now, I feel like anytime I'm going to spend my time on like, you know, building tech product, there's that kind of that speed and scale that I now need to meet. If I think of like what I was doing in my startup, it moved way slower. And there's always this balance with startups of like how much do you commit to an idea that you have versus like find out that it's not working and then pivot. But I think one thing I've realized at OpenAI is like the amount of impact that we can have and in fact need to have to do a good job is so high that it's a I have to be like way more ruthless with how I spend my time now.”

    2025-12-14 · Lenny's Podcast · Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “By far, I would say the speed and ambition of working in OpenAI are just dramatically more than what I can imagine. And I guess it's kind of an embarrassing thing to say because everyone who's a startup founder thinks like, oh yeah, my startup moves super fast and the talent bar is super high and we're super ambitious. But I have to say like working in OpenAI, I just kind of like made me reimagine what that even means.”

    2025-12-14 · Lenny's Podcast · Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Few of us are like constantly on Reddit. You know, there's praise up there and there's a lot of complaints. What we can do is, as a product team, just try to always think about how we are building a tool so that it feels like we're maximally accelerating people rather than building a tool that makes it more unclear what you should do as the human.”

    2025-12-14 · Lenny's Podcast · Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Of our major goals with Codex is to get to productivity. If we're going to build a super assistant, it has to be able to do things. One of the learnings over the past year is that for models to do stuff, they are much more effective when they can use a computer. It turns out the best way for models to use computers is simply to write code. And so we're kind of getting to this idea where if you want to build any agent, maybe you should be building a coding agent.”

    2025-12-14 · Lenny's Podcast · Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “To see glimpses of the future where we're actually starting to have codecs be on call for its own training. Codex writes a lot of the code that helps manage its training run, the key infrastructure. And so we have a codex code review is like catching a lot of mistakes. It's actually caught some pretty interesting configuration mistakes. One of the most mind-blowing examples of acceleration to Sora Android app, like a fully new app. We built it in 18 days and then 10 days later, so 28 days total, we went to the public.”

    2025-12-14 · Lenny's Podcast · Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Is OpenEyes 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 data dog unless you ask it to.”

    2025-12-14 · Lenny's Podcast · Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source