@sama: kicking off a bunch of codex tasks, running around with my kid in the sunshine, and then coming back at naptime to find…
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Sam Altman shares a personal anecdote about OpenAI Codex completing coding tasks automatically while he was away, expressing optimism for the future of AI automation.
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