Episode

Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue

Alexander Embiricos, product lead for OpenAI's Codex, describes Codex as an evolving software engineering teammate that grew explosively after GPT-5 by first meeting developers where they work before pushing toward full autonomy. He discusses how Codex accelerated internal projects like the Sora Android app and Atlas browser, why coding is becoming the way any agent acts on a computer, and his view that human typing and review speed, not model capability, is now the main bottleneck to progress.