{"podcast":{"title":"Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast","slug":"latent-space-ai-engineer","podcast_index_feed_id":6058902,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1084089.rss","website_url":"https://www.latent.space/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1084089/ca7468da5614a246d2906ee8926f6de7.jpg","author":"Latent.Space","episode_count":217,"summary":"The AI Engineer newsletter + Top technical AI podcast. How leading labs build Agents, Models, Infra, & AI for Science. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Soumith Chintala et al!","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T15:06:40.969607+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer"},"episode":{"title":"Codex from 0 to 10M Users: Building ChatGPT Work — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI","slug":"codex-from-0-to-10m-users-building-chatgpt-work-akshay-nathan-openai","published_at":"2026-07-28T15:26:30+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/codex-from-0-to-10m-users-building-chatgpt-work-akshay-nathan-openai","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer","url":"https://www.latent.space/p/chatgpt-work","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208716574/1644ff34767eacc3e04d93b5c8621905.mp3","summary":"OpenAI's Codex is evolving from a developer tool into a 'superapp' for general knowledge work. Akshay Nathan explains how the transition from coding agents to productivity agents is driving massive user growth.","meta_description":"Explore how OpenAI's Codex reached 10M users by expanding from coding tools to general knowledge work agents with ChatGPT Work.","key_points":["Main idea: The expansion from coding agents to knowledge work agents is the next frontier for AI utility","Practical takeaway: Focus on 'at bats'—the ability to rapidly iterate from idea to validation—rather than just output volume","Failure mode: Avoid the trap of conflating 'motion' (activity enabled by AI) with actual 'progress' (achieving deliberate goals)","Trend: Non-developers are adopting Codex-powered tools at a rate 3x faster than traditional engineers","Strategic shift: Moving from 'telling' users how to use tools to 'showing' them through agentic capabilities like artifacts and computer use"],"chapters":[{"start_ms":60000,"title":"The Thesis of No-Code","summary":"Reflecting on the transition from Airtable to OpenAI and the dream of making database primitives accessible via LLMs."},{"start_ms":360000,"title":"The Codex Inflection Point","summary":"Discussing the unexpected surge in adoption among non-developers and the move toward a 'superapp' model."},{"start_ms":1020000,"title":"The Role of Model Intelligence","summary":"How improvements in model quality and cost allow for more complex, automated productivity workflows."},{"start_ms":1620000,"title":"Scaling Infrastructure and Product","summary":"The engineering challenges of building the infrastructure necessary to support massive user growth and agentic features."},{"start_ms":2280000,"title":"The Future of Agentic Work","summary":"How agents will eventually have access to a user's entire digital environment to create and manage artifacts."},{"start_ms":3840000,"title":"Motion vs. Progress","summary":"A critical distinction for managers: using AI to drive meaningful outcomes rather than just increasing the volume of tasks."}],"topics":["OpenAI","ChatGPT Work","Codex","AI Agents","Productivity Engineering","Knowledge Work","Software Development","No-code"],"duration_seconds":4168,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latent-space-ai-engineer/episodes/codex-from-0-to-10m-users-building-chatgpt-work-akshay-nathan-openai/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latent-space-ai-engineer/codex-from-0-to-10m-users-building-chatgpt-work-akshay-nathan-openai.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}