E37 - Inside OpenAI’s Codex Party with Aaron Makelky

What happens when OpenAI invites a small group of Codex power users to the mothership?

In this episode, Jethro Jones talks with Aaron Makelky about his trip to OpenAI’s Codex event in San Francisco, what it felt like to be in a room full of AI builders, and what the experience reveals about where AI tools are headed.

Aaron shares how attendees were selected, what it was like meeting Sam Altman, why a simple wooden Codex keychain became an unexpectedly human conversation starter, and how the best AI users are combining tools like Codex, Cl...