Full interview: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on tbpn

This is our full interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, recorded live on TBPN. We discuss the launch of GPT-5.3-Codex, why managing AI agents is the next interface shift, and how chips, power, and compute bottlenecks will shape the future of AI. TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11–2 PT on X and YouTube, with full episodes posted to podcast platforms immediately after. Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” TBPN has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella. 00:00 GPT-5.3-Codex 02:27 AI agents and the future of work 03:20 The role of forward-deployed engineers in AI 05:42 AI benchmarks 07:29 Emotional attachment to chatbots 10:40 On data and compute being the 'new oil' 12:56 Is software dead? 17:48 Codex Desktop and the rise of the general-purpose work agent 25:00 OpenAI’s last Super Bowl ad and the Anthropic ads