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Thibault Sottiaux

OpenAI engineering manager on Codex who said the product now pretty much builds itself, with humans the limiting factor.

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Welcome to February 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Thibault Sottiaux is an engineering manager on OpenAI’s Codex team. He enters the corpus unnamed, as the manager who said Codex now pretty much builds itself and identified humans as the limiting factor in the loop, three days before OpenAI shipped GPT-5.3-Codex as a model instrumental in creating itself.

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2026-10-05: Sottiaux signals an upcoming Astra 6.1 release

2026-09-06: An insider gives the AGI successor a November ship date

2026-04-29: A model tops the leaderboard for writing the GPU kernels it runs on

2026-02-03: A Codex manager says the product now builds itself

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Thibault Sottiaux, Codex engineering manager at OpenAI

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Thibault Sottiaux
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