@itsharmanjot: Sam Altman just called building Codex to beat Claude Code a "crazy kamikaze mission" OpenAI was "way behind." Every pla…

🚨 Sam Altman just called building Codex to beat Claude Code a “crazy kamikaze mission”

OpenAI was “way behind.” Every playbook said don’t bother.

Then his team did something he calls “very rare in the history of business” 🧵 https://t.co/GwBngVYxne

Sam Altman just called building Codex to beat Claude Code a “crazy kamikaze mission”

OpenAI was “way behind.” Every playbook said don’t bother.

Then his team did something he calls “very rare in the history of business”

Why he thought it would fail, in his words:

“The consensus is that this kind of thing never works, and you just move on to the next one. It’s a fool’s errand to try to win when someone else already has momentum in a particular product category.”

They gave one team a mission that felt impossible. It worked.

“Now it is the product that most of the best coders I know use.”

His takeaway » It only happened because they asked for something really important and extremely hard. Play it safe and it never ships.

Same interview, he got humble about something else. Altman admits he was wrong on AI’s timeline:

“I thought when we got to GPT-4, which was back in 2023, that very quickly after that there was going to be much more disruption… than it turned out to be.”

His reason » The economy just has too much inertia.

“People keep doing the same things, buying from the same company, wanting to use their tools the same way.”

He says he’s grateful for it. The slower adaptation makes the whole transition smoother.

Two admissions, one interview:

» Codex went from “way behind” Claude Code to what Altman says most top coders now use » He expected GPT-4 to disrupt the economy fast in 2023, and it didn’t

Not the usual Altman pitch.

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