What the top podcasts are saying about Codex.
Codex came up in 17 of 157 episodes (11%) in the four weeks to Nov 8, against 15% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 17 episodes behind the newest bar
- We now have Kerr’s Law (Interview)The Changelog · week ending Nov 8 · said it 6 times
- Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO…No Priors · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- Why Google wants to win the frontier conversation | Tulsee Doshi (Head of Product for Gem…Lenny's Podcast · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- [One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eri…Latent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 4 times
- Behind Latent Space, ft AIEi Shanghai preview — with swyx and Galen GaoLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it twice
- ⚡️ The 2026 Software Factory Standard — Zach Lloyd, Warp.devLatent Space · week ending Nov 8 · said it 4 times
- Inside Figma’s PM OS: skills, agents, and Auto XPHow I AI · week ending Nov 8 · said it 11 times
- The future is Postgres (Interview)The Changelog · week ending Nov 1 · said it twice
- Pro and Tell, The Gurmanator Joins, New Google Models, Open Weight Demand, Joe's MonkeysTBPN · week ending Nov 1 · said it 3 times
- Building ChatGPT for Finance — Joseph Kim, OpenAI's Head of Financial ServicesLatent Space · week ending Nov 1 · said it 14 times
- I tested 4 AI agents on 9 real tasks. Here’s who won.How I AI · week ending Nov 1 · said it 10 times
- Moderna Drama, AI Drama, Housing Drama, Gold DramaTBPN · week ending Oct 25 · said it 3 times
- AI in NYC: How Tenex Builds an AI-Native Engineering Team — Alex Lieberman & CJ HessLatent Space · week ending Oct 25 · said it 3 times
- I tested Claude Duet. Is it worth switching from Grok Bot?How I AI · week ending Oct 25 · said it 4 times
- How to kill your SaaS: what we learned replacing a $43K/yr tool with AI agentsLatent Space · week ending Oct 18 · said it 6 times
- High Taste Testers: The AI Tools We Keep Coming Back ToLatent Space · week ending Oct 18 · said it 28 times
- Atlassian CEO: Enterprises Won't Trust Chinese AI | Why The Jury’s Still Out on Specialis…20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Oct 18 · said it 5 times
What the shows said about Codex
Key takeaways from our write-ups that name it, newest first, no more than two from one show. Each links to the full write-up.
Imoh skipped cross-platform wrappers like React Native, using Codex to write native code directly for platform-specific iOS features.
William Imoh Built Mural Without Knowing Swift or Kotlin · How I AI · week ending Nov 15Specialized internal modules automate downstream technical tasks, including AutoXP for experimentation and Codex for QA bug bashes.
Figma Built a 31-Skill Git Repo for Product Managers · How I AI · week ending Nov 8To prevent testing artifacts, Julius ran evaluations directly inside native command-line tools, pairing OpenAI models with Codex and Anthropic models with Claude Code.
Deep Finance Shows Coding Models Fail at Private Equity Deals · TBPN · week ending Nov 8Engineering teams run into a blind spot when developers operate isolated instances of Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex in local terminals.
Why Local Coding Agents Break Engineering Observability · Latent Space · week ending Nov 8Joseph Kim built 95 percent of ChatGPT for Financial Services using the exact same ChatGPT and Codex plugin primitives publicly available to external startups.
OpenAI Trains Finance Upstream: Why Startups Own the Last 20 Percent · Latent Space · week ending Nov 1Products like Dots, Codex Cloud, and ChatGPT Work run centrally in the cloud while retaining direct access to your local machine when required.
Andrew Ambrosino on Fast Models and Dynamic UI Generation · TBPN · week ending Oct 4OpenAI is consolidating ChatGPT, Codex, and Dots into a unified experience that eliminates model pickers and configuration menus.
Why OpenAI Is Killing Workflow Graphs for Agents · Lenny's Podcast · week ending Oct 4Town spends at least $75,000 per year per engineer on AI development software, splitting the budget primarily across tools like Cursor and Codex.
Spend $75,000 per Engineer on AI Tooling to Hire More · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 13Software engineering at Speechify centers on prompt architecture, verification, and agent steering, with Claude Code serving as the primary tool ahead of Cursor and Codex.
Speechify's AI Engineering Playbook: Hiring for Slope over Syntax · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6Tara Seshan, product lead for ChatGPT Work and Codex at OpenAI, argues that top operators do not use AI just to automate rote chores. They use it to widen their scope of action.
OpenAI's Tara Seshan on Why Ambition Is the New Bottleneck · Lenny's Podcast · week ending Aug 30
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“They probably have 50 to 60% market share because I think codeex is actually quite broadly used as well.”
Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Inf…
“…that we got with like Claude Code and Codex towards the end of 2025, early 26, a lot of it was driven by how much uh…”
Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…
“Reiner, to kick us off I'll ask this question. We have a couple of companies like Claude and Codex and Cursor offering something like Fast Mode, where for 6x the price, they'll…”
How GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope
“…throw it away. Curious do you have a take? Cloud codeex. Oh I like yeah I'm using both now. It's…”
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founde…
“…your favorite, they're all the same, codeex, cloud code, whatever. If they know how to tweak small details of the…”
Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening…
“…acceleration side of the business like these two are co-pilot versus codeex. Sure. Yeah. And so these two these two…”
Mike Isaac (NYT) Joins, Earnings Review, Beautiful Data Centers, Coatue is Land Maxxing
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…into the agent interface? I think OpenAI's got some really cool um things about them. The- They seem to be opening more with the SDK and the Codex server. I'm doing some cool stuff with the Codex server right now that's letting me do like steering and term-based stuff that's pretty…”
“…think of it as if if you're a Claude Code or a Codex user, uh, it's almost like a a tool like that that's optimized…”
Tokenization, Agentic Trading, Harmonic: Robinhood's Mission to Expand Ownership with CEO…
“…can find VIA or Genie and all these things. Similarly, codeex chatbt recently launched dots and now you go to…”
Why Google wants to win the frontier conversation | Tulsee Doshi (Head of Product for Gem…
“…science right now? Is cloud code and codeex all we need? Like I I want to, you know, hear your thoughts. Yeah, I uh…”
[One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eri…
“…performs relative to like totally vanilla Codex these days. Um, but I do think like in general, especially in…”
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| Latent Space | 7 | 17 |
| How I AI | 3 | 21 |
| TBPN | 2 | 16 |
| The Changelog | 2 | 3 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 10 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 1 | 10 |
| No Priors | 1 | 1 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 5 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast | 0 | 1 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast | 0 | 1 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “Codex” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads and show promos we can spot. A model marks them in every transcript and our code checks each mark against the words; we also skip the lines around phrases like “brought to you by” and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of March 30, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.