Altman Calls Codex Development a 'Suicide Mission' to Catch Up with Claude Code

Sam Altman admitted that developing Codex was a "crazy suicide mission" because OpenAI was significantly lagging behind Claude Code in the coding assistant race.

2026-07-26 ~ 2026-07-26 · 2 related posts

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