Episode 6 - The future of coding with AI

Hello, I'm Andrew Main, and this is the OpenAI Podcast. In this episode, we're going to speak with OpenAI co founder and president, Greg Brockman, and codex engineering lead, Thibault Soccio. We're going to talk about agentic coding, GPT-five Codecs, and where things might be heading in 02/1930.

Just bet that the greater intelligence will pan out in the long run.

It's just really optimized for what people are using GPT-five within Codex for.

How do you make sure that that AI is producing things that are actually correct?

We're here to talk about Codex, which first, I've been using it since actually since I worked here with the first version of this and then now you guys have the new version of this. I was playing with it all weekend long and I've been very, very impressed by this and it's amazing how far this technology has come in a few years. I would love to find out the early story. Like where did the idea of even using a language model do code come from?

Well, I mean, I remember back in the GPT three days seeing the very first signs of life of take a docstring and a Python definition of a function

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Name, and then watching the model complete the code. And as soon as you saw that, you knew this is gonna work. This is going to be big. And I remember at some point, we were talking about these aspirational goals of imagine if you could have a language model that would write a thousand lines of coherent code, right? That was like a big goal for us. And the thing that's kind of wild is that that goal has come and passed. And I think that we don't think twice about it, right? I think that while you're developing this technology, you really just see the holes, the flaws, the things that don't wor

It's incredible how used we get to things improving all the time and how they just become like a a daily driver and you just use it every day and then you reflect back to, like, a month ago, and this wasn't even possible. And this just continues to happen. I think that's quite fascinating, like, how quickly humans adapt to new things.