Alex Embiricos

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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

Integrated development environment.

I mean, that phrase is so squishy that literally anything could be an IDE, right?

So I don't think that's very useful.

If that's the answer, then yes, you could even argue the Codex app is an IDE.

I don't think it is.

For me, I think of an IDE as a really powerful editor.

And we explicitly didn't build editing into the Codex app because we wanted it to be really clear how you're meant to use it.

So it has a lot of affordances for managing multiple agents, for delegating, for reviewing changes.

It has really prominent skills, which are an open standard, that are really useful for doing non-coding work, stuff like triaging tasks or monitoring deploys or something.

But it doesn't have text editing.

There are a few things here.

First off, the spec for what you want to do or the plan becomes more important than ever.

Think architecturally, how should this code work?

We recently shipped a very prominent plan mode that works a little differently than others where you have the agent go off and propose how it's going to do something.

It's quite a long plan.

And then it asks you questions about if you agree on how it wants to do it or if you want to have input.

And this is very similar to if you had a new hire who was new to your code base.

They had to present a request for comments to the rest of the team before they started doing the work.

So even though that's not formally code review, I would say review of the plan is actually something that's becoming more important because we're entering more of this delegation phase of working with agents.

So that's an underrated thing.

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