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Wu: OpenAI engineers using Codex open 70% more PRs
“So they're actually opening 70% more PRs and than the engineers who aren't using Codex as much and the gap is widening.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 4:48 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: AI will enable engineering managers to manage far more than 6-8 engineers
“My sense is I think managers will be able to manage much larger teams in this world. Kind of like how, you know, like software engineers are managing 20 to 30 codexes. My sense of these tools will allow managers, people manage to be higher leverage and will al…”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 22:08 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: A one-person billion-dollar startup will likely exist eventually
“It's like, yeah, if, you know, if people are so high leverage, at some point there will likely be a one person billion dollar startup.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 24:46 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: Rise of AI micro-companies could shrink venture-scale return opportunities
“You know, it might, we might end up in in a world where there's just, like, a handful of big players that are offering platforms and supporting all of these startups, but, you know, the types of venture-scale return startups that can really hundred or thousand…”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 27:43 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: OpenAI deployed o3 on an air-gapped Los Alamos supercomputer
“We actually did a custom on-prem deployment with them onto one of their supercomputers called Venado. And so this actually involves a bunch of, you know very bespoke work with some FDs also with a lot of our developer team. To actually bring one of our reasoni…”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 14:46 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: GPT-5 hallucinations dropped to near zero on certain benchmark evaluations
“I think there was an eval that showed that hallucinations basically went to zero for a lot of this.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 30:00 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: 95% of OpenAI engineers use Codex and 100% of PRs are AI-reviewed
“So, 95% of engineers use Codex. 100% of our PRs are reviewed by Codex daily as well, so basically any code that goes into production that's merged in, Codex kind of has its eyes on and suggests improvements, suggests changes in the PRs.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 4:17 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: Codex cuts OpenAI code review times from 15 to 3 minutes
“And it makes, you know, code reviews go from a, you know, I don't know, 10:15 minute task to sometimes even just like a two to three minute task, because you have a bunch of suggestions already, already baked in.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 16:39 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: The vast majority of code at OpenAI is authored by AI
“Almost every engineer heavily uses Codex in all of their tasks at this point, and so I, you know, if I were to guesstimate, like, the vast majority of code at this point is, It was probably authored by AI.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 19:14 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: AI models could execute multi-hour to day-long tasks in 12-18 months
“If you follow this trend, like, I think, like, in the next 12 to 18 months, we could see models that could do multi-hour long tasks very, very coherently. At some point, it might reach, like, you know, six hours a day long task.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 51:42 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: Native speech-to-speech multimodal models will improve dramatically in 6-12 months
“I think they're gonna get a lot better at audio over the next six to 12 months, especially the likes, you know, the native multimodal models, the speech-to-speech ones.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 52:30 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: Every model released in OpenAI products is released in the API
“Every single model we've released in one of our products gets released in the API.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 59:44 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Wu: Los Alamos OpenAI supercomputer deployment is shared with Lawrence Livermore and Sandia
“The other cool thing is it's actually being shared between Los Alamos and some of the other labs Lawrence Livermore Sandia as well because it, it's the supercomputer setup where they can all kind of connect with it remotely.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 16:35 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: GPT-5 Pro solves previously unsolved problems but takes ten minutes
“These like unsolved problems that none of the other models could handle, you throw out a GPT-V Pro, and it just like one shots it is pretty crazy, but the trade-off here is you're waiting for 10 minutes.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 28:22 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: OpenAI is currently operating in a GPU crunch
“We are in a GPU crunch, so we'll see how, you know, how long that goes.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 54:05 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: OpenAI was first to launch stateful responses API
“Obviously we were the first one to launch responses API, but like a couple of other people have kind of adopted, I think Grok has it in their API. I think I saw LMSYS just did something”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 15:46 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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OpenAI integrates with OpenRouter for multi-provider evals
“We have a really cool setup with Open Router, where we're working with them, and then you can bring your Open Router setup. And then with that, you can actually, you know, you write your evals using our data sets tool, or use our data set tool to create a bunc…”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 17:02 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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Apple Siri routes requests based on the user's ChatGPT subscription tier
“If you sign into your ChatGPT account the Siri integration will actually use your subscription status to decide what type of model to use when it passes things over to ChatGPT. And so if you're you know just a free user you get, you know, the free model. But i…”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 29:56 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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OpenAI Codex successfully one-shots entire features 30% to 40% of the time
“What a lot of the interns would do is just, like, full YOLO mode, like, trust it to, like, write the whole feature. And it, like, it doesn't work. It, like, doesn't work sometimes. But, like, I don't know, like, 30, 40% of the time it just, like, one-shots it.”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 40:00 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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OpenAI's API throughput has surpassed six billion tokens per minute
“We actually zoomed past that.”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 44:33 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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Wu: ChatGPT is roughly the fifth largest website in the world
“ChatGPT obviously is really, really, really big now. [233] Sherwin Wu: It's I think like the fifth largest website in the world.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 3:51 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: The majority of the startup ecosystem builds on OpenAI's API
“The biggest product that we have is obviously our developer platform, which is our API. [271] Sherwin Wu: You know, many developers, you know, the majority of the startup ecosystem builds on top of this, as well as a lot of digital natives, Fortune 500 enterpr…”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 4:21 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: GPT-4 already existed internally at OpenAI by September 2022
“The first one was right when I joined the company in September, 20, 22. We, it was pre-TiGPT. But at the time, GPT-IV already existed internally.”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 1:06:47 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: Responses API is OpenAI's most popular developer endpoint
“The most popular one that we have right now is one called Responses API.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 1:05:46 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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OpenAI's Nick Cooper sits on Anthropic's MCP steering committee
“We actually have a member of our team, Nick Cooper, who is sitting on kind of like that, that steering committee for MCP as well.”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 6:45 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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John Schulman developed the Tinker API concept across OpenAI and Anthropic
“Right when I joined OpenAI, like, this has actually been, I think, a passion project of John's. Like, he's been talking about doing something in this, like, in this shape for a while, which is, like, a truly, like, low-level research, like, fine-tuning library…”
Sherwin Wu Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 22:35 DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
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Wu: OpenAI's original product was its developer API, not ChatGPT
“When I joined OpenAI around three years ago to work on the API, it was actually the only product that we had. [178] Sherwin Wu: So I think a lot of people actually forget this, where the original product for, from OpenAI actually was not ChatGPT. [183] Sherwin…”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 2:49 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: OpenAI used T-Mobile deployment learnings to improve core Realtime models
“And a lot of the improvements that we actually got into the model came out of, you know, the learnings that we have from T-Mobile. It brings in a lot of other change from other customers, but because we were so deeply embedded into T-Mobile and we were able to…”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 11:03 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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Wu: Accordance achieved SOTA results on Tax Bench via OpenAI RFT
“There's another startup called Accordance that's doing this in the tax space. I think they've been targeting an eval called Tax Bench, which looks at, you know, CPA style tasks as well. And because they, because, you know, they're able to turn it into a very g…”
Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 41:24 Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod
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