“A full software engineering teammate”: OpenAI product lead on getting the most out of Codex | Alexander Embiricos

People love how thorough and diligent Codex is. It's not the fastest tool out there, but it is the most thorough and best at hard complex tasks. If you're a software engineer or somebody who's even just new to using some of these AI tools, where would you get started with Codex? We're building it into a full software engineering teammate. One of the things that codecs is great at is simply answering questions. If you have a chat where codecs is producing these plans and you wanna change something, it's actually really nice for the model if you just use the same chat to ask for changes to the plan. And that way, it has all this context in its head when it's ready to get going. This is a great starter flow that shows how flexible this platform is and how it can meet a bunch of people at a variety of levels of tasks. How is OpenAI using this for bigger features and bigger products? We used codecs to build the store app for Android in twenty eight days, and it immediately became the number one app in the app store. Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vaux, product leader and AI obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today, we have Alexander Imbirakos, product lead for codecs from OpenAI, and he's gonna show us how you get the most out of codecs whether you're a nontechnical user trying to make changes to an existing code base or want the power tips and tricks for getting the most out of it in the terminal. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by Brex. If you're listening to the show, you already know AI is changing how we work in real, practical finance. Brex is the intelligent finance platform built for founders. With autonomous agents running in the background, your finance stack basically runs itself. Cards are issues, expenses are filed, and fraud is stopped in real time without you having to think about it. Add Brex's banking solution with a high yield treasury account, and you've got system that helps you spend smarter, move faster, and scale with confidence. One in three startups in The US already runs on Brex. You can too at brex.com/howiai. Alex, thanks for joining How I a I. I'm excited about today's episode because we actually haven't seen a deep dive into codex yet, and we are gonna get the expert take on how to get the most out of this tool. And I love that we're just gonna dive in and do a zero to one hello world with codex. So if you're a software engineer or somebody who's even just new to using some of these AI tools, where would you get started with codex? Codecs is a coding agent. We're building it into a full software engineering teammate. But to get started, let's just talk about where …