Have a Crazy Idea? Build It with Codex | Romain Huet | OpenAI France
Summary
OpenAI ships new models every 6 weeks, yet developers remain hesitant to fully leverage AI's capabilities. Romain Huet's core advice: stop being shy with AI models—they're already smarter than humans and actively want more ambitious use cases from builders.
Key Takeaways
- OpenAI releases production models on a 6-week cadence, creating a rapid iteration cycle that outpaces developer adoption and comfort levels.
- Developers and founders are psychologically under-utilizing AI capabilities—the models themselves are eager for more ambitious prompts and complex problems.
- The key mindset shift for builders: treat passion projects and 'crazy ideas' as ideal testing grounds for Codex/AI integration rather than low-priority experiments.
- Active curiosity and experimentation are the primary success factors—founders should prioritize trying new approaches with AI models rather than waiting for perfect conditions or next-gen releases.
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Transcript Excerpt
Ask your best crazy ideas, the passion projects you've been putting on the side for way too long. Give them to Kodak and you'll be surprised. I mean the biggest takeaway is really the energy. There's so much going on in Paris in this tech scene. But yeah, love to hear from founders who are building their companies with their AI and our models. So it's really magical. I mean the main advice I'd have is just be curious. And [music] if there are any things that you've always wanted to try, just go for it. I think like those models are already so so smart. In many ways they're smarter than us, but we're still too shy with them. They mostly want to hear more from us and best practices, like how do they like build even more? They're also curious about like when the next model will ship. It's ama…