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How to Use Codex Like an OpenAI PM | Abhi Muchhal, PM OpenAI (ex-Meta and Nubank)
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- The Growth Podcast
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- Jun 3, 2026
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- 4027
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Summary
Today’s episode Six months ago, I told you Codex is the best way to use ChatGPT for PM work. Most of you tried it. Some of you stuck with it and very few of you are running it the way the people who built it actually run it. Today we get that inside look. Abhi Muchhal is an International Growth PM at OpenAI. Before that, Meta, Nubank, and a founder building on the OpenAI API. He is one of the people responsible for ChatGPT’s growth in India, Brazil, and Japan, markets that are now driving a meaningful share of OpenAI’s 900 million weekly active users. He opened his actual setup on camera. The harness. The automations. The prompts that actually work. And the ones that failed before he figured it out. ---- Brought to you by: Bolt.new - Ship AI-powered products 10x faster Product Faculty - Get $550 off their #1 AI PM Certification with code AAKASH550C7 Customer.io - Send smarter messages using your product data Ariso - Ship AI agents and features faster, with fewer regressions Jira Product Discovery - Plan with purpose, ship with confidence ---- If you want access to my AI tool stack - Dovetail, Arize, Linear, Descript, Reforge Build, Relay.app, Magic Patterns, Speechify, Bolt.new and Mobbin - become an annual subscriber ($150), and grab Aakash’s bundle . If you want access to my AI PM customizations - PM OS , Job Search OS , and Prompt Library - become a founding subscriber ($250) . ---- Key Takeaways: 1. The harness is what separates Codex users from Codex runners - The connectors, the permissions model, and the skills layer are the three components that make Codex a system rather than a chat tool. Without all three, you are using an expensive autocomplete. 2. Generic prompts hit the wrong data - Abhi's team had separate B2C and B2B tables that both matched "tell me abo…