The power user’s guide to Codex: parallelizing workflows, planning techniques, advanced context engineering tips, automating code reviews, and more | Alexander Embiricos
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Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): You lead work on Codex. Alexander Embiricos (00:00:01): Codex is OpenAI's 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 Datadog unless you ask it to....
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title: "The power user’s guide to Codex: parallelizing workflows, planning techniques, advanced context engineering tips, automating...
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on when AI agents will actually be really useful, and so much more. A huge thank you to Ed Bayes, Nick Turley, and Dennis Yang for suggesting topics for this conversation. If you enjoy this podcast,...
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can use a computer, or many computers. And now the question is, okay, well, how should it use the computer? And there's lots of ways to use a computer. You could try to hack the OS and use accessibility...
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Lenny Rachitsky (00:41:01): I want to talk about Atlas. I'll come back to that. Codex, code execution, did not know that. That's really clever. I get it now. Okay, and then this chatter, what is a...
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Alexander Embiricos (01:24:45): Yeah, thanks so much for having me. This was fun. Lenny...
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