Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
It’s rare to work with an unlimited token budget, but at OpenAI, that’s what all engineers, researchers, finance colleagues, and marketing folks do. Recently, I visited one of the world’s leading frontier labs to find out how OpenAI operates today – and for a glimpse at where software engineering might be headed as a profession. Plenty has changed since I visited OpenAI’s headquarters last year. Within a year, Codex has gone from a “nice-to-have” tool to being the backbone of pretty much everything at the company. To learn more, I talked with seven engineering leaders and engineers there: Venkat Venkataramani (VP of Engineering, Applied Infra), Sulman Choudhry (Head of Engineering, ChatGPT), Andrew Ambrosino (Lead, Desktop), Joe Gershenson (Lead, Core Agent team), Akshay Nathan (Engineering Lead, Productivity), Ahmed Ibrahim (Engineer, Codex) and Steve Coffey (Engineer, Responses API). Thanks to all for taking part! Today, we cover: - Codex takes over at OpenAI. In a matter of mont
