OpenAI's Tibo: agents will handle most internet tasks; Codex resets ran 40-60 times
AGI Hunt · wechat · 2026-10-05
At DevDay, Lenny Rachitsky recorded a live podcast with OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT & Codex, Tibo (Thibault Sottiaux), released Oct 4.
Key takes
- Most internet operations will be done by agents; he's bearish on manual loops/graphs orchestration—the future is a persistent, learning, 24/7 agent (dots).
- Model selectors will disappear; dots has none, and Codex/ChatGPT are being merged into it.
- Sign in with ChatGPT has 16 partners; popular plugins will share revenue—a detail absent from the keynote.
- GPT-6.1 Astra was deliberately not released: "I'm very proud of that."
The 'godfather' and the reset button
- Tibo's frequent Codex credit resets earned him meme status; trackers count 42-60 resets (weekly), and fan sites predict reset probability.
- The physical reset button is real: at DevDay, Altman called his name, he raised the button and pressed it, granting every user a banked reset, with "Reset Co." on screen.
Background
- Belgian, coding since 7; ex-Google/DeepMind (Reverb, Gopher, Gemini, Imagen 3), joined OpenAI in 2024, took over Codex, then the whole core product org under Brockman. He no longer hand-writes code, save weekend LeetCode.
Related event: OpenAI ChatGPT and Codex Lead Says the Model Picker Will Disappear(6 posts)→
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