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 in the feedback we've heard is that people actually feel like now this is a very competitively fast model than before.

So there's a lot of things you can do just in terms of the model.

There are also things you can do, like improving how you do inference.

So we recently rolled out a change where in the API, those models are served 40% faster.

And in codecs, they're served 25% faster.

So I think like speed matters a lot and we're kind of approaching it from all angles, like both the hardware, how you do inference and the model level.

I don't know.

I think I struggle with that.

I think, you know, fundamentally in this new world where anyone can build and it is increasingly easy to build things, what is hard, right?

I think having a good relationship with the customer and knowing what they need is as hard as ever, maybe even harder as it's just like there's just more stuff in the market to choose from.

You know, the other things that are hard are like building the right thing, having a really high quality thing.

But going back to the sales and marketing thing, I don't think that goes away because I think that's, like I said, I think that's just gotten harder as the markets, any given market gets more competitive with more software out there.

So I'll speak for myself and then for the team.

I would say most people that I know are basically not opening editors anymore.

And this was a step function change that happened in, it's been happening gradually, but I'd say the key external market touchpoint for this was GPT-5.2 codecs.

where all of a sudden, the model was way better at running for longer, handling tasks end-to-end, managing its context, and following instructions.

And so we kind of saw this inflection point.

And that's actually part of why we built the app.

So I think before GPD 5.2 Codex,

the kinds of AI features we were using to write code were like tab completion, or maybe you were pair programming with the model.

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