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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI

Dec 26, 2025 · 27m
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  • Brian Fioca and Bill Chen from OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5 teams explain training agents to work 24+ hours, manage own context, and spawn sub-agents for parallel codebase work
  • Personality, communication, and planning matter as much as raw capability; Codex trained with strong opinions about tools (prefers rg over grep) and includes unexpected learned habits
  • Abstraction layer moving from models to full-stack agents pluggable into VS Code or Zed; partners co-develop tool integrations discovering unexpected model behaviors

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