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Ed Bayes

What Ed Bayes thinks about developer tools

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Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, where he works on coding agents and leads design for Codex and ChatGPT Work.

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  1. Our readingMaking coding-agent interfaces more accessible expands the power of coding agents to more people, which developers got early and everyone else is now getting to know.

    coding agents

    Their wordscreating these like really accessible interfaces just really expands the access of the power of coding agents to more and more people, which developers kind of got early and now I think rest of folks are kind of uh getting to know as well.

    ↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording

  3. Our readingOne of the biggest barriers to using tools like Codex is assuming it can't do something; pushing past that keeps expanding the scope of what is possible.

    Their wordsOne of the biggest barriers of of of folks like using tools like Codex is this like limiting factor of like, oh, it can't do that. But every time, at least I've kind of like pushed myself, you know, really expands the scope of what is possible.

    ↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 18th of 18 in this recording