Alex Embiricos

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1,288 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 21 Feb

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Who Wins, Who Loses | Will All Coding Be Automated - Do We Need PMs | The Real Bottleneck to AGI | The Three Phases of Agents and What You Need to Know with Alex Embiricos, Head of Codex at OpenAI · 21 Feb 2026 podcast

So excited to be here.

I'm a maximalist.

I'm definitely much more motivated by the idea of winning than the fear of losing.

But I'll admit to you something.

When I was running a startup before joining OpenAI, and one of my darkest moments, and there were many dark moments while I was running the startup, was recognizing that I had spent the past few months trying to avoid losing.

All of a sudden, I was like, oh, my God, that is why I'm so unhappy.

And that's probably why the startup isn't going well.

You know, I basically every now and then I have to catch myself and like flip back into this idea of winning.

But really what motivates me even more than that is I think I just love building things and building things for people.

And man, I am so excited for this year because many amazing things that don't exist yet are going to be built and given to a lot of people.

For sure, I would agree that coding is one of the first domains where LLMs are really good.

you know, what does it mean for coding to be automated?

It's like kind of a heavy statement, right?

For example, now that we no longer write assembly, like when that change happened and we moved to higher level languages, did we say coding is automated?

Not really, right?

We were just able to write much more code.

And then as a result, actually, there was much more demand for code and there were many more software engineers required.

But yeah, part of what they used to do is automated in the same way that like, do you know the origin of the word computer?

I might pronounce the location wrong, but I think it was at Bletchley Park.

There were all these machines for decoding German Enigma.

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