@embirico: This was such a fun conversation with @danshipper! My quotes here are more raw than usual. I didn't expect to be quoted…
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Embirico shares highlights from an interview with Dan Shipper discussing Codex's rapid rise from a scrappy OpenAI effort to one of the most important untold stories in technology, including its cloud product and agent capabilities.
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This was such a fun conversation with @danshipper!
My quotes here are more raw than usual. I didn’t expect to be quoted, but then when Dan shared this AI-forward interview+transcript idea, I just couldn’t say no.
Dan Shipper (@danshipper): Codex is one of the most important untold stories in the history of technology.
A year ago, it was a scrappy effort in a quiet corner of @OpenAI. Its cloud product hadn’t found PMF, and the team was starting over from scratch.
Less than 12 months later:
- Codex swallowed the
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