OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
Jun 28, 2026 · 1h 10m · YouTube
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0:0090% of people at Opening Eye use Codex.
0:03Not 90% of engineers.
0:04That was 90% of the entire company.
0:06Yeah, this tweet the other day where you said that you intend to make Codex the best desktop app that has ever existed.
0:12Yeah, the quality bar for Codex had to be so high that there was never a hesitation that you have opening this app to do the next thing, that this was your natural choice.
0:22Just like people have kind of come to open a browser tab, right?
0:24That's true, I know.
0:25There's numbers constantly coming out about the records you guys are setting for usage.
0:28I don't know, like we'll see.
0:29A lot of people seem to like the app.
0:31Why do you think AI and the top frontier models are just not good at design?
0:36I think design's a little bit harder to grade because the human aspect of taste is like part of the feedback mechanism you need.
0:42That is still feeling a little bit out of reach with the current technology.
0:46What does the shape of product team look like now versus a couple years ago?
0:50Everybody at OpenAI is very agentic, has great ideas, and so everybody's building everything.
0:54And it's not that people are doing fundamentally different roles or focusing on different things, it's that it's backwards.
0:59The implementation is actually not the expensive part anymore.
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