Responses API and Codex: Latency, Tools and Recovery

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    Steve Coffey explains the Responses API as an agent-oriented evolution of earlier APIs, then discusses transport, context processing and implementation bottlenecks. He describes persistent connections and incremental context as ways to reduce repeated work, while noting that tool calls can dominate a user's observed latency even when inference is fast.

    Joe Gershenson and Ahmed Ibrahim discuss code-mode tool composition, a simple and consistent harness, and recovery for long-running tasks. They also describe voice input as a useful way to turn unstructured thoughts into an editable first draft. Productivity estimates and future plans remain the speakers' personal reports, not universal performance guarantees.

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    Steve Coffey, Joe Gershenson, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Theo Jaffee arranged across a black background above the blue-and-white headline “AGENTS THAT RECOVER”. Framed in blue with WWW.ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE.VIDEO, 24 July 2026 and duration 26m 25s.

    Steve Coffey, Joe Gershenson and Ahmed Ibrahim discuss agent performance from API transport to tool orchestration, emphasizing efficient context handling, simple harnesses and recovery from intermittent failures.