Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
Building internal artificial intelligence chatbots a year before ChatGPT launched • Joining OpenAI to work on fast moving reasoning models today • Early childho
Video Chapters
- 0:00 Building internal artificial intelligence chatbots a year before ChatGPT launched
- 2:10 Joining OpenAI to work on fast moving reasoning models today
- 5:15 Early childhood in a remote village sparked computer interest early
- 8:47 Applying mathematics and optimization techniques to real supply chain systems
- 13:03 Working on Google infrastructure and transitioning into DeepMind research roles
- 15:20 Joining OpenAI to build infrastructure and explore early code agents
- 18:18 Choosing Rust for the core agent to ensure maximum performance
- 22:15 Deciding to open source the harness and build active community
- 25:58 Allowing multiple models to power the harness without vendor lockin
- 30:20 Discussing how developer tool competition drives faster innovation choices today
- 35:00 Exploring local versus cloud environments for running advanced coding agents
- 39:00 Understanding the relationship between the harness and underlying language models
- 41:30 How new engineers get onboarded and use internal artificial intelligence
- 44:00 The software development lifecycle and verification processes for massive user bases
- 44:36 Shipping code quickly and safely to a billion users daily
- 46:32 How superhuman artificial intelligence models are changing traditional code reviews now
- 51:57 Automating routine software maintenance tasks to save valuable engineering time
- 56:19 Rearchitecting complex systems and scaling infrastructure with modern tooling support options
- 59:26 Discussing the long road ahead for important human problems together
- 1:03:48 Exploring the merge of local coding agents into cloud environments
- 1:07:52 Personal workflows and managing multiple projects with artificial intelligence agents
- 1:12:08 Advice for software engineers wanting to build with artificial intelligence