2025
Cisco became the first design partner for OpenAI's Codex coding tool, according to Jeetu Patel.
“we are the first design partner with their Codex.”
Topic
Codex
13 facts from 8 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Sherwin Wu distinguishes OpenAI's Codex Cloud coding product inside ChatGPT from the Codex CLI tool.
“I'm talking about our, uh, coding product within ChatGPT, which is the Codex Cloud offering, and then also Codex CLI.”
2025
Kiriti Badam says the Codex team built a code review product that has gained significant traction.
“we built this code review product recently and it has been gaining like extreme amount of traction.”
2026
Chris Benson says new AI coding tools can cut work that once took months to days or weeks.
“Something that might have taken months might only take a few days or weeks at this point, uh, with the new tooling.”
Undated
Badam says users annoyed by incorrect code suggestions may switch the product off entirely, which makes user reaction a key signal for the Codex team.
“if users do get annoyed by your like, you know, uh, incorrect code suggestions, they go to the extent of just switching off the product”
Undated
Badam says he uses a tool that keeps a Mac awake so he can run long Codex tasks locally for hours.
“caffeine is another thing that I've recently discovered from my teammates. It helps you like prevent Mac from sleeping.”
Undated
Bill Staples says AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex speed up coding but create downstream bottlenecks in software delivery.
“AI and coding agents like cloud code and codex are accelerating the coding aspect of a developer's job, but it's leading to downstream bottlenecks to overall software delivery.”
Undated
Nate B. Jones says the Sky team, acquired by OpenAI, helped launch a computer use product for Codex.
“the Sky team, which was acquired by OpenAI, was able to use the tech technology and the talent on that Sky team to launch a really effective computer use product for Codex.”
Undated
Swamy lists multi-model orchestration, autonomous agents, MCP servers and coding-tool skills as capabilities institutions must absorb.
“multi model orchestration with new models, agentic, fully agentic, and autonomous agents, M C P servers, skills that you use in Claude Code or Codex”
Undated
Within OpenAI, Codex adoption in finance, legal and sales was near zero and then jumped to about 90%, around the time the Codex desktop app was released in February.
“if you look at finance, finance, legal, and sales, um, you know, it's pretty much at zero, and suddenly it kind of jumps up to 90%.”
Undated
Joseph Kim says Codex was the first OpenAI product where the product, model, harness and research were all developed together under one roof.
“it was the first time we developed a product where the product, the model, harness, and the the research was all kind of under one house and on one roof”
Undated
Most of OpenAI's ChatGPT for financial services was built on the ChatGPT plugin architecture, which is available to outside builders.
“most of the product that we built was built on top of the Codex, um, or I should say ChatGPT now, um, plug-in architecture and plug-in primitives.”
Undated
Joseph Kim's team worked from the thesis that Codex gets a product about 80% of the way to market success and that the missing 20% is pivotal.
“the thesis of my team was Codex was Codex will get you about 80% of the way to a product that would be successful in the market, but, you know, um, the 20% is missing.”
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