Calvin French-Owen, co-founder of Segment and former OpenAI Codex team member, discusses the rise of powerful coding agents. He contrasts the architectures of Codex and Claude Code, explores the future of work where engineers become managers of AI, and shares tips for becoming a top 1% power user.
Poetic, a startup by ex-DeepMind researchers, has significantly advanced performance on the ARC-AGI benchmark by applying a recursive self-improvement system to Gemini 3. Co-founder Ian Fisher discusses how their approach of automating prompt and system engineering provides a substantial performance boost without needing access to model weights, and explores its potential as a path toward AGI.
Chip Huyen provides a deep dive into the evolving landscape of AI-powered coding. The talk covers the different interfaces for AI coding tools, introduces new metrics like "interruption rate" to measure productivity, and outlines a framework for the levels of coding automation. Huyen argues that the engineer's role is shifting from writing code to architecting systems and reviewing AI-generated output, emphasizing the rise of spec-driven development and the critical importance of system thinking.
A panel of university students from LSE, Princeton, Berkeley, and ASU discuss the real-world impact of AI on campus life. They cover how AI is used as both a powerful learning tool and a crutch, the innovative projects students are building, how universities are adapting, and the challenges of navigating cheating, job applications, and 'AI slop' in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
This is a step-by-step walkthrough for onboarding to OpenAI Codex. It covers installing the CLI and VS Code extension, configuring your workflow with agents.md and config.toml, and applying effective prompting patterns. The session also dives into advanced use cases, including integrating external tools via MCPs, running Codex programmatically in headless mode, and building multi-agent systems with the Agents SDK.
A step-by-step walkthrough on getting started with OpenAI's Codex. This guide covers installation of the CLI and VS Code extension, configuration using `agents.md` and `config.toml`, effective prompting patterns, and advanced workflows like using the Model-Connectable Protocol (MCP) and the OpenAI Agents SDK for programmatic automation.