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

And so I think this talent stack will compress, but we'll still have people building.

Yeah, it's my fun joke.

I think, well, first of all, I think it's incredibly hard to define what a PM is, what a product manager is.

I kind of think of the role as like actually explicitly undefined and your goal is just to adapt to whatever the team or business needs.

Often, if you have a bunch of people like trying to build as quickly as possible, then what a product manager can do is

spend time taking a few steps back and trying to look around corners and figure out what to do, collaborate with the folks and go to market, and maybe be the team's greatest cheerleader and quality raiser.

But all of those things I just described, which are maybe my current role, could be done by a really strong eng lead or a designer who thinks a lot about product.

And so I think it's often useful to have product managers, but you probably don't want many of them until the team is really large.

For sure.

Okay, that's a fun one.

I think there are multiple bottlenecks, but that's maybe the most sort of clickbaity one.

So if you don't mind, I will do this slightly Socratically.

Like how many times would you say you use AI today?

30 plus times a day.

Okay, cool.

How many times do you think, assuming it was like zero energy expenditure from you, how many times do you think AI could help you per day?

I think we'll have inference running 24 hours a day across every single thing.

Exactly.

And I hear things now from engineers at OpenAI and also outside who are telling me, I constantly have Codex running.

I never close my laptop.

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