INTERVIEW
2026-09-08
Tibo Sottiaux on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast: Building Codex
OpenAI's head of Core Products & Platform — the face behind the usage-reset announcements — talks through how Codex was built and iterated: why the CLI is Rust and open source, how the harness and models evolved, why Codex supports multiple providers, and the ChatGPT + Codex merger.