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

We just wanted it to be something that all agents can use.

And pretty much every agent except Claude uses agents.md, which is awesome.

And then just last week, actually, we helped push for putting skills, which are a standard for like giving the agent instructions and scripts.

We pushed for those to be sorted in sort of a neutral named folder called agents instead of in like codecs or something.

And again, everyone has jumped on it except the usual suspect.

I think it's really great for the developers to have a lot of choice, and we're trying to make it even easier for people to try different things.

Now, that said, these coding tasks where you're asking an agent to write some code, they're quite hermetic.

And what I mean by this is maybe an analogy in TV would be episodic.

You can come in, and you've got this open-ended agent's file that any agent can read from.

You've got these skills that any agent can use.

And you can ask the agent to write some code, and it produces a patch, and that patch goes into Git.

So both ends of this are pretty neutral, vendor neutral.

So very easy to move between for now.

As agents start to do work that is not writing code, but more general work, again, for software engineers or beyond for any builder, they're going to need to start interfacing with other systems.

So as they start, maybe your agent is talking to Sentry, or it's talking to your Google Docs or something.

then I think these agents become much stickier because actually deciding to connect an agent to that system is a sticky decision.

And if you're an enterprise, really trusting that the agent is going to have access to these tools, but there are really good secure guardrails and sandbox and controls over how the agent works with these systems, I think is critically important.

And that's not something that you're going to want to do multiple times.

And so, you know, we've been kind of building Codex knowing that this is coming.

And so we have like the most conservative sandboxing approach.

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