Sam Altman reveals building Codex was a 'crazy kamikaze mission' to beat Claude Code

Sam Altman reveals that OpenAI was far behind Claude Code in coding products, and building Codex seemed like a 'crazy kamikaze mission', but the team succeeded and Codex is now the tool most top coders use. He calls it a rare feat in business history.

• Claude Code
• codex
• coding agent
• OpenAI
• Sam Altman