Ex-OpenAI Engineer Disputes Popular Codex Origin Story

Former OpenAI infrastructure engineer Thibault Sottiaux pushed back on the popular narrative around Codex's origins, clarifying that it began as an internal tool aimed at maximizing leverage for infrastructure work.

2026-09-08 ~ 2026-09-08 · 2 related posts

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