[tim333]

I don't think he claims to be an "AI researcher". His CV has:

>I built significant pieces of the Copilot onboarding, purchasing, billing and settings flow. For eight months I headed up the Copilot anti-abuse effort. I then led the launch of GitHub Models, and am now working on other Copilot projects.

As an aside I had a look at GitHub Models and it was quite interesting - you can try the API for a number of models for free using your GitHub login.

[gs17]

The article is titled "GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me", so I think it's easy to think he's referring to himself as an AI researcher. He does say "I don’t have any illusions about this making me a real AI researcher", but it's the very end.