Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)
Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, is evolving from a code-completion tool into a proactive software engineering teammate capable of planning, validating, and maintaining code — with early signs of self-managing its own training infrastructure. The key to its acceleration lies not just in mode
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