OpenAI
also referred to as: open ai
includes OpenAI Codex, OpenAI O1, OpenAI API, OpenAI O3, OpenAI Agents SDK, OpenAI Responses API, OpenAI o Series, OpenAI AgentKit, OpenAI Realtime API, OpenAI Evals API, OpenAI GPT, OpenAI Research Team and 1 more
226 statements across 41 episodes · 118 bullish · 11 bearish · 39 people on the record · first statement Sep 4, 2022 by Ryan J. Salva · said 625 times in 79 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (325), Sherwin Wu (60), Alexander Embirikos (29), Kevin Weil (19), Nick Turley (15), Tara Seshan (14), Lazar Yovanovich (11), Dan Shipper (10)
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2026 196 mentions in 12 episodes 16 per episode
- OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- “I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 354 mentions in 40 episodes 9 per episode
- Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- 32 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 28 mentions in 11 episodes 3 per episode
- A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
- Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
- Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 31 mentions in 12 episodes 3 per episode
- The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
- Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 16 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub)
- Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
- How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about OpenAI, oldest first
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
Salva: AI code completion latency sweet spot is roughly 200 milliseconds
“It seems like right now it's around 200 milliseconds. So depending upon where you're in the world, your latency can go up or down a little bit from there, but it seems like the sweet spot is somewhere around 200 milliseconds.”
Sep 4, 2022 positive
GitHub provided its Arctic Code Vault to OpenAI for model training
“And so what we did is just like the year before that, we had actually created a snapshot. Of GitHub's public code for what we call the Arctic code vault, right?... Well, we took that same data snapshot and we brought it to our friends over at OpenAI to see lik…”
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
OpenAI scraping GitHub repositories initially appeared to be a DoS attack
“And at the time, one of the teams that I was responsible for was GitHub's infrastructure team. You know, the team responsible for our data centers, our reliability, our uptime. And we noticed one day that we were getting hammered. I mean, absolutely hammered w…”
Sep 4, 2022
Salva: GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI's Codex, derived from GPT-3
“Copilot is essentially that magnified by many lines of code. It is multi-line autocomplete that is
Fundamentally powered by an AI model called Codex, which is a derivative of another kind of one that you might be familiar with, GPT-III.”
May 4, 2023
OpenAI uses Stripe to power ChatGPT Plus monetization and financial operations
“OpenAI, for instance, is using us for
monetizing chat GPT plus and all their other products, but they don't just stop there. We're actually helping power all of their subscriptions and revenue tracking and financial operations around the business.”
Oct 26, 2023 bullish
Intercom took a bet-the-farm approach to AI by rebuilding its strategy
“So we literally ripped up our strategy almost entirely and started again, like from first principles and said, okay, why do people use Intercom? You know, Intercom is a customer support product. And then very soon after that, Sam Altman, who's the, you know, f…”
Oct 26, 2023 positive
Adams: Great AI products require ML engineers building atop foundation models
“Ultimately, you need, like, really great machine learning engineers. Like, that's where it starts. And if you don't have that, then you know, you gotta find it hard to build truly, really, truly great things. You know, so, like, what OpenAI provide what Entrop…”
Nov 9, 2023 neutral
Nov 16, 2023 neutral
Jan 21, 2024 neutral
Breakthroughs like ChatGPT only offer a temporary one-to-two-year talent hiring advantage
“Yeah, so if you're, if you've invented ChatGBT, you can bring in the smartest AI people for a year or two. Because, you know, everybody wants, oh, oh, the smart AI people want to work at the cutting edge with the current winner. Then they'll start arguing with…”
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
Thanksgiving 2023 was OpenAI's first planned company-wide break after launching ChatGPT
“OpenAI had been pushing for a really long time since ChatGPT came out and that was supposed to be like the first, one of the first weeks that like the whole company had like taken time away to like actually reset and have a break.”
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
OpenAI plans to launch GPT Store monetization in Q1 2024
“Like I think monetization when it comes to the store later this quarter, I think is going to be extremely exciting. Like when people can get paid based on who's using their GPTs, that's going to be a huge unlock and like open a lot of people's eyes to the oppo…”
Feb 8, 2024 positive
OpenAI views revenue merely as a proxy to acquire more compute
“Even if revenue is a goal, it's like revenue is not actually the goal. Revenue is a proxy for getting more compute, which is then like actually what helps us get towards getting more GPUs so that we can, you know, train better models and like actually get to t…”
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
GPT-5 will normalize as a useful tool rather than changing everything
“GPT-V is like surely going to be extremely useful and like solve some whole new echelon of Problems. Hopefully they'll be faster. Hopefully it'll be better on all these ways, but like fundamentally the same problems that exist in the world are still going to b…”
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
AI products moving beyond standard chat interfaces will gain competitive edges
“You're going to have an edge on other people. If you're providing AI that's not accessible in a chat bot, like people are using a ton of chat and like, it's a really valuable service area. Like it's clearly valuable because people are using it, but I think pro…”
Feb 8, 2024 bearish
Adding AI researchers decreases group productivity when GPU capacity is constrained
“In a world where you're constrained by the amount of GPU capacity that you have as a researcher, which is the case for OpenAI researchers, but also researchers everywhere else, like Each new researcher that you add is actually, like, a net productivity loss fo…”
Feb 8, 2024 positive
OpenAI deliberately keeps its core research team small
“The actual research team who like, you know, sort of see the most of the innovation that happens at OpenAI is intentionally small. They're not Like, you know, most of the growth that OpenAI has seen is around like our customer facing roles, our engineering rol…”
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
Kilpatrick: A board crisis in 5-10 years would be far more damaging
“Fast forward like five or 10 years of something like this would have happened. And we sort of hadn't gone through the hopeful upcoming like word transformation and sort of all those changes that are going to happen. I think it would have been a little bit or p…”
Feb 8, 2024 neutral
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Future LLMs will automatically expand short user prompts into detailed descriptions
“This will happen with text models. You can imagine a world where you go into ChatGPT and you say, write me a blog post about AI. It automatically will go and be like, let me generate a much higher fidelity description of what this person really wants, which is…”
Feb 8, 2024 positive
GPT-4 was OpenAI's first model with reliably predictable capabilities before training
“GPT-IV was the first model that we trained where we could reliably predict the capabilities of that model beforehand. Based on the amount of compute that we were going to put into it, and you could actually, we did like a scientific study to show like, hey, th…”
Feb 8, 2024 bearish
Startups building general-purpose AI agents will directly compete with OpenAI
“I talked to a lot of developers who are building like, you know, just general purpose assistance and like general purpose agents and stuff like that. And I think it's cool and it's a good idea. I think like the challenge for them is like, they are going to end…”
Mar 24, 2024 positive
Apr 7, 2024 neutral
Sep 8, 2024
Sep 19, 2024 bearish
Schwartz: AI Startups Cannot Unseat Google Purely on Search Product Quality
“I don't think there's a chance, and this is the biggest takeaway, I don't think there's a chance that ChatGPT or Perplexity or Claude or any of these other LLM startups, because they're startups now, even, even OpenAI as a startup with Bing's part, with Micros…”
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Schwartz: Marketers and SEO practitioners should not worry that AI kills SEO
“I don't think that's at all correct. And I don't think anyone, whether you're doing SEO as your full-time job, whether you're receiving SEO traffic as a part of one of your primary marketing channels, I don't think anybody has to worry about that.”
Sep 26, 2024 bearish
Yehoshua: ChatGPT user retention is low due to workflow disconnects
“If you look at the stats from ChatGPT, from what I understand, ah, the retention is fairly low. Like people use it, they play with it, and then they don't get back to it because it's not in their workflow, and they have a hard time figuring out what they can a…”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Weil: Top AI customers orchestrate workflows across multiple models, not just one
“People maybe don't realize that actually a lot of the most sophisticated customers of ours are doing, and that we're certainly doing internally, is it's not really about one model for any particular thing. You end up putting together sort of workflows and orch…”
Nov 6, 2024 bullish
Weil: Frontier AI increasingly generates answers that evaluators prefer over humans
“The models are getting to the point where they can often beat humans at certain tasks. Like, people prefer the model's answers to a human's answers, and so if you're humans writing your evals, like, you know, so what does that mean?”
Nov 6, 2024 bullish
Nov 6, 2024 bullish
Weil predicts today's cutting-edge AI will feel like garbage within 12 months
“And, you know, the stuff that's happening today that we're working on, that you guys are working on, it all feels like magic. 12 months from now, we're going to be like, can you believe we use that garbage? Because it's going to, I mean, that's how fast this t…”
Nov 6, 2024
Weil: AI product design fundamentally differs based on model reliability tiers
“You don't know whether it's going to be like, 60% good, or 90% good, or 99% good, and the product that you would build that would make The sense with something that works 60% of the time is super different than 90 or 99% of the time, right?”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Weil: Enterprise organizations often create thousands of internal custom GPTs
“With OpenAI, we have these custom GPTs that you can make, and organizations make thousands of them often, and it's a way for the power users to make something that makes AI easier and, like, immediately valuable for the people that might not know how to use it…”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Weil: Current AI models are eval-limited rather than intelligence-limited
“I think there's a very real sense in which models today are not intelligence limited. They're eval limited. They can actually do much more and be much more correct on a wider range of things than they are today, and it's really about sort of teaching them.”
Nov 6, 2024
Weil: AI model behavior and personality are core product responsibilities
“Yeah, model behavior is absolutely a product role. Like, the personality of the model is, is key, and there are interesting questions around how much should it customize versus how much should, you know, OpenAI have one personality, and Claude has some distinc…”
Nov 6, 2024 positive
Weil: AI product development fundamentally differs because capabilities shift every two months
“Normally when you're building product, you're building off of kind of a fixed technology base, right? You know what you have to work with, and you're trying to build the best product you can. Here it's like every two months computers can do something computers…”
Nov 6, 2024
Dec 8, 2024 bullish
Godin: Claude delivers kindness and humility, while ChatGPT overpromises
“ChatGPT's reputation with me is not good because it regularly over promises and under delivers, and it does it without kindness or humility. Whereas Claude, I don't know how they did it, at least in my experience, brings kindness and humility.”
Feb 9, 2025
Nguyen: Model Training Is More Art Than Science, Debugged Like Software
“Model training is more an art than a science, and in a lot of ways, like, we as, like, model trainers think a lot about, like, data quality. So, like, it's one of the most important things in model training is, like how do you ensure the highest quality data f…”
Feb 9, 2025
OpenAI used o1 synthetic data to train Canvas commenting behaviors
“The way we used it is, like, we would use a one model to produce, to, like, simulate, like, use a conversation. Let's say, like, write me a document about XYZ, but then we used a one to, like, produce the document, and then we kind of injected, like, user prom…”
Feb 9, 2025 positive
Feb 9, 2025
Nguyen: OpenAI introduced 'model designers' to define behavioral evals
“There's also like new role that we have like model designers. To kind of, like, go through some of the user feedback, maybe, or, like, think of, like, various, like, user conversations that should have triggered, like, under this circumstances, it should trigg…”
Feb 9, 2025 bullish
Nguyen: Computer-use AI agents will learn and replicate individual browsing behaviors
“The computer use agents, like the model operating the desktop, and you can essentially think of like, you know, new kind of like Experience where the model can learn the way you browse. And from that preference, it can just like browse as just like you.”
Feb 9, 2025
Feb 9, 2025 positive
Feb 9, 2025 neutral
Nguyen: Anthropic excels at prioritization, while OpenAI takes more product risks
“I would say, like, Antarctic, I learned from Antarctic that, like, They're much better at, like, focusing and, like, prioritization or, like, very, very hard, like, very hardcore prioritization, I guess, and they need to do it. Like, but I think, like, OpenAI …”
Feb 9, 2025 neutral
Feb 9, 2025 positive
Nguyen: Synthetic Data Outperforms Human Data for AI Product Development
“And the reason why I really love, like, synthetic, like, relying purely on synthetic data instead of, like, collecting Data from humans is because it's, like, much more scalable. It's cheap, less than how, like, you literally sample from the model, and you tea…”
Feb 9, 2025 bullish
Nguyen: AI is not far from autonomous self-improving product development
“And I don't think, like, we are far away from that kind of, like, self-improvement, models becoming, like, self-improved via, like, then, like, the product development is basically kind of, like, self-improving, like, it's kind of, like, its own, like, organis…”
Feb 9, 2025
Nguyen: Pixel-based perception is much harder to scale than language in AI
“Much of it is, like because right now the models operating on, like, pixels instead of, like, language or whatnot, like, pixels is actually really, really hard for the models because, like, perception or visual perception. I think there's still, like, a lot of…”
Mar 9, 2025 bullish
Osika: Perfect AI software creation and integration will arrive within two years
“The last piece of software, how I see that is that it's almost instant to go from what you want to change in a product or what you, what product you want to build. To having it fully working end to end, integrated with any of your existing systems or integrate…”
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Weil admits OpenAI no longer holds a massive 12-month lead
“It used to be that OpenAI had this, like, massive model lead, you know, 12 months or something ahead of everybody else. That's not true anymore. You know, I like to think we still have a lead. I'd argue that we do, but it's certainly not a massive one.”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: Model ensembles attacking a problem together yield better thinking
“You get better thinking sometimes out of a group of models that all try and attack the same problem, and then you have a model that's looking at all their outputs, and integrating it, and then giving you a single answer at the end.”
Apr 10, 2025 bearish
Weil: Prompt engineering will become obsolete as AI matures
“I want to kill the idea that you have to be a good prompt engineer. I think if we do our jobs, that stops being true. You know, it's just one of those, like, sharp edges of models that experts can learn, but then you just, over time, you shouldn't need to know…”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: OpenAI image model understands complex multi-image spatial instructions
“The model is, is really capable at emulating style or understanding what, you know, it's very good at instruction following. That's actually something that I think people, I'm starting to see people discover with it, but you can do very complex things. You can…”
Apr 10, 2025
Weil: AI product UX can be designed by modeling human behavior
“One of the things that's been funny for me is the extent to which you can kind of reason when you're trying to figure out how some products should work with AI, you can often, or even why some AI thing happens to be true. You can often reason about it the way …”
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Weil: OpenAI aims to release new o-series models every 3-4 months
“And now with this O series of reasoning models, we're moving even faster. We're like every roughly, you know, three months, maybe four months, there's a new O-series model, and each of them is a step up in, in capability, and so the capabilities of these model…”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: OpenAI's Chief People Officer vibe-coded an internal company tool
“Our, actually, our chief people officer, Julia, Was telling me the other day, she vibe coded an internal tool that she had at a previous job that she really wanted to have here at open AI. And she opened, I don't know, windsurf or something and vibe coded it.”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: Future AI will pair broad foundation models with custom evals
“I think the future is really gonna be incredibly smart, broad based models. That are fine tuned and tailored with company specific or use case specific data so that they perform really well on company specific or use case specific things. And you're going to m…”
Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Weil: Model accuracy levels dictate fundamentally different product designs
“If the model gets it right, 60% of the time, you build a very different product than if the model gets it right, 95% of the time, versus if the model gets it right, 99.5% of the time. And so there's also something that you have to get really into the weeds on …”
Apr 10, 2025
Apr 10, 2025 positive
Weil: Product teams should vibe-code interactive prototypes instead of using Figma
“Why shouldn't we be, like, vibe coding demos right, left, and center? Like, instead of showing stuff in, like, Figma, we should be showing prototypes that people are vibe coding, you know, over the course of 30 minutes to illustrate proofs of concept and to ex…”
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Weil: OpenAI struggles with junior PMs due to extreme ambiguity
“And we have trouble sometimes with more junior PMs because of this, because it's just not the place where someone is going to come in and say, okay, you know, here's, here's the landscape. Here is your area. I want you to go do this thing. And that's what you …”
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Weil: OpenAI will not build industry-specific vertical AI products
“There are immense opportunities in every industry and every vertical in the world to go build AI based products that improve upon the state of the art. And there's just no way we could ever do that ourselves. We don't want to, we couldn't, if we did want to.”
Apr 10, 2025 positive
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Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Apr 10, 2025
Weil: OpenAI manages 400 million weekly users with 30-40 support staff
“With 400 plus weekly 400 plus million weekly active users, we get, you know, a lot of inbound tickets, right? I don't know how many customer support folks we have, but it's not very many. 3040, I'm not sure. Way, way smaller than you would have at any comparab…”
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Weil: OpenAI minimizes scaffolding because rapid advances erase model limits
“We don't spend that much time building scaffolding around the parts that don't match that because our general mindset is in two months, there's going to be a better model and it's going to blow away whatever, you know, the current set of limitations are.”
Apr 13, 2025 positive
Rauch: DeepSeek proved AI thinking token visibility is a killer feature
“So the deep seek Stream the thinking tokens moment was a very big moment for industry, I think, because open AI did have the technology, but they decided that for competitive reasons, which, you know, are, it's a reasonable thing to think, no pun intended. The…”
May 25, 2025 positive
OpenAI advised enterprise customers to prioritize internal efficiency over product features
“And in fact, even at OpenAI, it's one of the things that we advised most enterprises to invest in first is Their own operational efficiency, rather than just the AI magic dust they could sprinkle on top of their product experience for their customers.”
May 25, 2025 positive
May 25, 2025
Shankarraman: Product loyalty grows when reality consistently exceeds user expectations
“There's a sense of loyalty that builds up over time when there is a shorter and smaller delta between your expectations and your reality. And where those expectations are exceeded, you, it is accretive to the brand and your loyalty to the product. And where th…”
May 25, 2025 positive
Stripe and OpenAI fought off massive inbound demand, unlike Retool
“Retool was very different from both my experiences at Stripe and at OpenAI, because both Stripe and OpenAI, for better or for worse, were inbound companies, right? There was so much latent demand that we were fighting off people breaking down the door, trying …”
Jun 22, 2025 neutral
Deng: AGI requires product builders to channel raw intelligence into value
“AGI is just necessary, but not sufficient. A lot of the value is still gonna require a bunch of hustle from a lot of builders to really turn that new source of energy and channel it into something that we humans want to use that solves some of our problems. An…”
Jun 22, 2025 neutral
Jun 22, 2025 positive
Deng: ChatGPT improvements required tight product and post-training collaboration
“That's what we did at OpenAI too. Like we were very closely tied to the post trading team. And so it was because of that tight collaboration that you see some of the advances of ChachiBT getting better at so many things.”
Jun 22, 2025 positive
Deng: Teams stay aligned by stating plans, progress, and completion
“So let me take a step back. So one, say what you're going to do. And then in that. Exercise. You're going to be able to calibrate with your manager, again, with anyone, right? What is it that we're going to do? And it's, I think the words are really important …”
Jun 22, 2025 bullish
Deng: Future generations will not need to write code for work
“I don't actually think he's gonna have to code when he grows up. I think that's gonna be a solved problem, but it's a very, very valuable skill because I think learning to program is learning how to think structure in a structured way, right?”
Jul 17, 2025 neutral
Shipper: OpenAI benchmarks new models on predicting its internal codebase
“The gold standard for OpenAI for testing how powerful a model is, is they test it on their internal code base. So they say, how good is the new model at predicting what comes next in our internal code base? Cause that's not anywhere out on the internet.”
Jul 20, 2025 negative
Aug 9, 2025
Turley: OpenAI created ChatGPT subscriptions solely to throttle excess demand
“The birth of that was just to turn away demand originally. Like, it was not like, you know, we brainstormed, oh, what is the best monetization model for AI? It was really, what is, what monetization model has, or what mechanism would allow us to turn away peop…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Turley: GPT-5 dynamically chooses when to reason without manual user prompting
“It thinks too, just like O three did, but you don't have to manually, you know, tell it to do that. It'll just dynamically decide to think when it needs to. And when it doesn't need to think, it just responds instantly.”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Turley: OpenAI does not care how much time users spend on ChatGPT
“You know, we don't care at all how much time you spend on the product. You know, in fact, our incentive is just to solve your problem, and, you know, if you really like the product, you'll subscribe, but, you know, there's, No incentive to keep you in the prod…”
Aug 9, 2025
Turley: AI companies must separate product velocity from rigorous model safety
“I think it's been really important to separate out, you know, the product development velocity, which has to be super high, from, okay, for things like frontier models, there actually needs to be a rigorous process where you red team, you work on the system ca…”
Aug 9, 2025
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Turley: Pre-ChatGPT, OpenAI shipped models like hardware instead of software
“Treating the model as a product was not a thing before ChatGPT, because we would ship it more like hardware, where, you know, there'd be a release like GPT-III, and then we would start working on GPT-IV, and these weird giant Big spend R&D projects that would …”
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Aug 9, 2025
Turley: OpenAI shipped ChatGPT within 10 days of deciding to build it
“When we decided to do it, you know, we had been prototyping for so long, and I was just like, you know, in 10 days we're going to ship this thing, and, you know, we did, so that was like maybe a moment in time thing where I just really wanted to make sure that…”
Aug 9, 2025
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Turley: OpenAI's pace leaves no time to track third-party API products
“Sometimes, like, you know, API developers ask me, it's like, hey, are you, like, you know, going to copy all of our products? There is, like, I actually just do not have time to follow up, you know, what's going on outside of OpenAI, because the pace here is, …”
Aug 9, 2025 bullish
Turley: Billion-user ChatGPT will enable new businesses via built-in distribution
“Like, I think there really is a world where, you know, as this thing hits billion user scale, it can get you distribution. It can get you know, started on making something in the same way that people built on the internet. And, you know, there was entirely new…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Turley: ChatGPT user retention has improved over time across cohorts
“And it's been incredible to not just see strong retention numbers, but to see, you know, an improvement in retention over time. Even as our cohorts become, you know less of an early adopter and more, you know, the average person, so.”
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Turley: Consumer custom GPTs launched before models had sufficient tooling
“They're kind of ahead of their time in the sense that we built that kind of concept before you could really build very differentiated things, at least in the consumer space. You know you're like learning GPT is going to be pretty similar to what the model coul…”
Aug 9, 2025
Turley: Traditional PM frameworks fail when applied to raw AI capabilities
“One is sort of working backwards from the model capabilities, and that is much more than science where I think you really need to look at what tech do we have available and what is like the most awesome way to product productize it. And if you apply to some so…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Curiosity matters far more than prior ML experience for AI product hires
“For product and engineering and design people and, you know, those kinds of functions, I actually think that if you are just curious about the stuff works, it doesn't matter at all if you've never done it before. In fact, if you were to filter for people who'v…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Turley: GPT-5 will be free and default, with legacy models for Pro
“Just use the product. You don't even have to pay. Should be your default model starting tomorrow. And just use it and don't think about models anymore. Unless you want to and you're a pro user, in which case you get all the old models, so rest assured.”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Turley: Big tech avoids sensitive use cases, OpenAI leans into them
“I think that's what most tech companies do when they hit a certain skill. They run away from these use cases. And I think it's a lost opportunity to help people. So we want to run towards these use cases by making the model behavior really, really great.”
Aug 9, 2025 bullish
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Aug 9, 2025 bullish
Aug 9, 2025
Turley: OpenAI priced ChatGPT at $20 using a four-question Discord survey
“So what I did do is ship a Google form to Discord with like, I think the four questions you're supposed to ask on how to price something. Yeah, exactly. It literally had those four questions, and I remember distinctly, A, you know, I got a price back and that'…”
Aug 9, 2025
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Turley: OpenAI is seeing substantial enterprise adoption of custom GPTs
“Different in the enterprise, by the way, we're seeing a ton of adoption of GPTs there because just every single company has very bespoke business processes and problems, et cetera. And it's a really, really useful tool there. They also have unique data that th…”
Aug 9, 2025 positive
Aug 9, 2025 neutral
Turley: ChatGPT is AI's MS-DOS and 'Windows' is not built yet
“I still feel like ChatGPT feels a little bit like MS-DOS. We haven't built Windows yet, and it will be obvious once we do, but, you know, there, there's something that feels a little bit like, imagine MS-DOS, like, gone viral, and you were just trying to, like…”
Aug 17, 2025 bullish
Balfour: OpenAI will launch ChatGPT platform with 10 to 20 preferred partners
“What I would expect to see play out next is that they will They will either launch, they will announce the platform or what they're going to announce with preferred partners, or what they're going to announce versus is basically a set of preferred partners, th…”
Aug 17, 2025 bullish
Aug 17, 2025 bullish
Balfour: OpenAI is about to launch a ChatGPT third-party platform
“There's going to be what they do with like a chat GPT search experience, but I think the bigger thing will be whatever they do with launching a third party platform on top of chat GPT. There's a bunch of signals that they're about to that they're about to laun…”
Aug 17, 2025 neutral
Balfour: AI chat platforms are currently in Step 0 of their lifecycle
“And I think we could all agree that we are in that Mode. You know, right now we've got open AI battling with Claude, battling with Gemini in Google with whatever meta comes out with their new team, you know, so on and so forth. Like, and there's huge amounts o…”
Aug 17, 2025 bullish
Balfour: OpenAI job postings signal an imminent third-party agent platform launch
“There's all sorts of signals that They're about to launch a third party platform. They've been hiring for a bunch of roles. I've seen multiple postings on like product manager, engineering roles, all that kind of stuff for, you know, quote unquote agent platfo…”
Aug 31, 2025 neutral
Sep 11, 2025 bullish
Nov 30, 2025 neutral
Grosser: Vercel treats OpenAI as enterprise due to top-25 internet traffic
“Great example of this would be open AI. Open AI. I forget these days how many employees it has. Let's say it's 3000. It's probably more than that at this point. But so that's going to put it in the mid market at most companies, but they're a top 25 traffic sit…”
Dec 14, 2025 neutral
Internal dogfooding at AI labs skews product signals for the general market
“It just turns out that this is one of those places where the signal we got from dogfooding is a little bit different from the signal you get from like the general market, because at OpenAI, you know, we train reasoning models all day. And so we're very used to…”
Dec 14, 2025 positive
Structuring markdown plans with verifiable steps extends AI agent autonomy
“Like often collaborate with it first to write like a plan on MD, like a markdown file. That's your plan. And once you're happy with that, Then you ask it to go off and do work, and if that plan has verifiable steps, it'll, like, work for much longer.”
Dec 14, 2025
AI coding agents must start locally before users delegate asynchronously
“The key unlock is actually first you need to land with users in a way that's, like, much more intuitive and, like, trivial to get value from. So the way that most people discover, like, the vast majority of users discover Codex today is either they download an…”
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
Codex usage grew 20x since August, serving trillions of weekly tokens
“The last stat we shared there was, like, we were, like, well over 10 X since August. In fact, it's been, like, 20 X since then. Also, the codex models are serving many, many trillions of tokens a week now, and it's basically, like, our most served coding model…”
Dec 14, 2025 positive
Tesla's FSD is a masterclass in human-in-the-loop AI agent design
“I find the Tesla software, like, quite inspiring. In particular, it has, like, the self-driving feature, and, you know, I, I've mentioned a few times, like, today, like, I think it's really interesting to think about how to build, like, mixed initiative softwa…”
Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
Dec 14, 2025 positive
The Codex team prioritizes Day 7 retention over power-user edge cases
“One of the things that I'm constantly reminding myself of is that a tool like Codex sort of naturally is a tool that you would, you know, become a power user of. And so we can accidentally spend a lot of our time thinking about features that are like very deep…”
Dec 14, 2025 positive
Dec 14, 2025 positive
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
Dec 14, 2025 positive
The most effective way to test Codex is on your hardest tasks
“The best way to try codex is to give it your hardest tasks. Which is a little different than some of the other coding agents. Like, you know, some tools you might think, okay, let me like start easy or just like, you know, like vibe code something random and d…”
Dec 14, 2025 neutral
Human prompt writing and validation are the main limits to AI productivity
“I think that the current limiting factor, I mean, there's many, but I think a current underappreciated limiting factor is like literally human typing speed or human multitasking speed on like writing prompts. And like, you know, you were talking about, it's li…”
Dec 14, 2025 positive
A dedicated AI browser provides superior context compared to desktop screenshots
“A lot of work is done in the web, and if we could build a browser, then we could be contextual for you, but in a much more first class way. We weren't hacking like other desktop software, which have like very varied support for like what content they're render…”
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
Deep customer domain understanding beats raw building skills for AI startups
“If you're starting a new company today, and you have, like, a really good understanding and, like, network of customers that are currently underserved by AI tools, I think you're, like, you're set. Whereas if you're, like, good at building, like, you know, web…”
Dec 14, 2025 positive
OpenAI built the Sora Android app in 28 days using Codex
“The Sora Android app, right, like a fully new app, We built it in 18 days. It went from like zero to launch to employees, and then 10 days later, so 28 days total, we went to just like GA, to the public. And that was done just like with the help of Codex.”
Dec 14, 2025 bullish
OpenAI uses Codex to manage infrastructure and review its own training runs
“Codex writes a lot of the code that helps, like, manage its training runs, the key infrastructure. You know, we move pretty fast, and so we have a Codex code review is, like, catching a lot of mistakes. It's actually caught some, like, pretty interesting confi…”
Jan 1, 2026 neutral
Jan 11, 2026 bullish
Badam: Every enterprise client at OpenAI found viable AI use cases
“No company at OpenAI we talk to is, has never had been the case that, oh, AI cannot help me in this case. It has always been that, oh, there is this, like, set of things that it can optimize for me, and then let me see how I can adopt it.”
Jan 11, 2026 neutral
Badam: OpenAI Faced Major Support Ticket Spikes During New Product Launches
“Open AI face to say exact same thing when we were launching products and there was like a huge spike of support volume as like, you know, we launched successful products like image and you know, like GPT five and things like that.”
Feb 12, 2026
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Wu: OpenAI managers use internal ChatGPT for employee performance reviews
“We're doing performance reviews right now, and it's actually really easy to use ChatGPT with internal knowledge, hooked up to GitHub and like our Notion docs and Google docs. To give a, get a really good sense of what this person has done over the last 12, 12 …”
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Wu: AI tools widen the productivity spread across engineering teams
“Codex really empowers, like, top performers to get a lot, like, to be a lot more productive, and so it really, like, and I think this may be true for AI more broadly, like, across society, which is, like, the people who really lean in, or, like, the people who…”
Feb 12, 2026 bullish
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.”
Feb 12, 2026 bullish
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Feb 12, 2026
Wu: AI startups fail from lack of customer resonance, not OpenAI competition
“Every startup that I've seen that is kind of fizzled out is not because open AI or, you know, big lab or Google or something has come to squash them. It's because they built something and it like really didn't resonate with the customers.”
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Wu: OpenAI team is maintaining a 100% Codex-written codebase without manual coding
“So there's a team that that's actually doing an experiment right now with an open AI where they are basically maintaining a 100% code expert and code base. So, you know, like, you know some, you know, you'll have the AI write code, but you'll obviously end up …”
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Wu: Tech-adjacent non-engineers drive the most enthusiasm for enterprise AI adoption
“The pattern I've seen is it tends to be these like software engineering adjacent, like basically technical people, but are not software engineers. I think those are the ones who get tend to get most excited around this. It's like, you know, maybe the, it's lik…”
Feb 12, 2026 negative
Wu: Blindly following customer requests leads to AI product local maxima
“Because the field is changing so much at any point in time, you know, a lot of people are kind of in this local, local maximum. And if you just blindly listen to your customers, they'll, they'll be like, yeah, I want a better vector store. Like I want a better…”
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Wu: AI startups should build for capabilities that are 80% viable
“My general advice, and I've been giving this to people for a while, and I think it's still true today, is make sure you're building for where the models are going and not where they are today. You know, the, it's clearly a moving target, and I think a lot of t…”
Feb 12, 2026 positive
Feb 12, 2026
Wu: OpenAI engineers juggle up to 20 parallel Codex threads simultaneously
“I know many of the engineers on my team basically have like, 10 to 20 threads kind of being pulled on at the same time. Obviously not active running codex jobs. But just a lot of parallel threads. They're checking in on what they're doing. They're steering the…”
Feb 12, 2026 bullish
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
Apr 2, 2026 neutral
Apr 2, 2026 positive
Willison: Coding agents become truly productive only in permissionless 'unsafe' mode
“I think a lot of people who haven't got on board with coding agents yet, haven't tried them in the unsafe mode. They're using coding agent where it's like, oh, can I run this piece of code? Can I edit this file? And that means you have to pay complete attentio…”
Apr 2, 2026 neutral
Willison: OpenAI and Anthropic maintain private, restricted security models
“Both OpenAI and Anthropic have specialist security models That they will not release to the general public because they can be used to break into websites. So they have like invite only, like registered security researchers can apply for access and they've bee…”
Apr 2, 2026 neutral
Willison: OpenAI and Anthropic didn't build OpenClaw due to security risks
“The reason OpenClaw took off is Anthropic and OpenAI could have built this and they didn't because they didn't know how to build it securely. If you're an independent third party, you don't have that restriction. You can just Build something and put it out the…”
May 2, 2026 positive
May 17, 2026 negative
Kalinowski: OpenAI lacked proper governance around its Department of Defense deal
“And I feel that what happened with the decision-making, the speed of the decision-making, the governance, and the lack of defined guardrails around the announcement of the Department of War deal is not how I thought it should have been done.”
May 24, 2026 positive
May 24, 2026 bullish
May 31, 2026 neutral
Jun 14, 2026 neutral
Jun 28, 2026 bullish
Ambrosino: OpenAI Codex independently wrote a Premiere Pro extension to edit videos
“Codex is not a video editor per se, right? It doesn't have any of that UI in it. But it was able to understand that he used Premiere Pro. It could do some edits by editing the files that were backing what was on screen in Premiere Pro, but it couldn't do every…”
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Ambrosino: AI labs prioritized coding models because code directly accelerates AI research
“I also think that the labs historically invest in making their models good at things that accelerates AI research. And that in the era, the early era of coding models is very clear that the model being able to write correct code. Would accelerate research. In …”
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Ambrosino: AI apps must build native memory instead of user mind palaces
“And I think memory is sort of in the shape where we've had a lot of people and a lot of people at other companies too are like, well, I set up an obsidian base or a notion area and I tell it how to basically build my mind palace and how to put, it's like, eh, …”
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Ambrosino: OpenAI integrates Codex with existing tools instead of replacing them
“We're trying to do two things at once with Codex and with now with ChatGPT. One is how can we seamlessly interact with these tools that you're already using and say, like, we don't need to build a better video editor for you. Right. But like Codex and ChatGPT …”
Jun 28, 2026 bearish
Ambrosino: OpenAI Codex would have failed if released three months earlier
“I like, I am very confident that the codex app that we released in February, if that had been ready. In November, it would have absolutely failed in the market. And the only difference was the models between November and February.”
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Ambrosino: High-fidelity prototypes no longer signal validated assumptions in AI era
“The medium implied it had baked in a lot of signal around where in the process something was. So if you're seeing something that feels like the app in production, That means that it's late in the process, that assumptions have been de-risped, that, you know, d…”
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Ambrosino: Use documents for product clarity and prototypes for interaction testing
“If implementation is abundant. Then it's really important to pick the right format for the point you're trying to make. If that point is product clarity around a vague area, then it might actually be a document. If what you're trying to do is get something in …”
Jun 28, 2026
Jun 28, 2026
Ambrosino: AI makes taste and curation the expensive bottlenecks in product development
“The implementation is actually not the expensive part anymore. It's dare I say taste. But it's the curation process. It's like of those 90 attempts, like what's good about these, what should we fold into other aspects of this, right? How should we frame this? …”
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Ambrosino: Any precision in a 9-month AI roadmap is false precision
“The basic just is the shorter term something is the more detail it needs. And then it's not that we don't plan for nine months out. It's that that just has to stay very hazy because any amount of precision that you add to a nine month plan right now is false p…”
Jun 28, 2026 neutral
Ambrosino: OpenAI sees role overlap rather than total existential role collapse
“There's been a lot written about role collapse, existential role collapse. There are no roles anymore. We haven't seen that. We've, we have seen more role collapse in the Codex org than I think other parts of the company and other parts of the economy.”
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Ambrosino: Codex Team Deliberately Dogfoods Suboptimal Workflows to Fix the App
“There is a desire among all of us to try to do as much as possible in the app, even when it's not the best tool so that it can become the best tool. And so a lot of design we all work on by using the app and say, okay, what's broken about this? This is a whole…”
Jun 28, 2026 positive
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Silber: Human design will become more important as software creation is commoditized
“I think that as more and more software is made, more and more products are made, I think that the, I do think that the human element of design is going to really Be, start to become more and more important. It's always been the case that I think that, you know…”
Aug 16, 2026 neutral
Silber: Instagram's slower product change cycle would not work at OpenAI
“Like we spent more time at Instagram, we definitely moved slower. And I would say that we changed the product less and that actually worked really well for most stages of Instagram. But I don't think that that would work in, in the current stage of where we're…”
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Aug 16, 2026 bullish
Silber: Future AI interfaces will evolve specialized layouts based on user profession
“And I think that's where the UI is going to start to really continue to evolve, is how do we make, if you're If you come at this, and you're a designer, maybe chat should actually really look differently look different, or have different affordances. Or you're…”
Aug 16, 2026
Silber: OpenAI is prototyping ways to deeply embed ChatGPT into personal lives
“You know, like we're thinking a lot about how we should evolve. Sort of really think about ChatGPT becoming like deeply embedded in a per, like your personal life and how, how should the app feel? That's something that we're not going to necessarily design and…”
Aug 16, 2026 bullish
Silber: OpenAI aims to build a single universal input interface
“When we think of the super app, I think eventually we really think of the idea of, especially for our broad consumer base, we do think that there should be sort of this one universal input that you can ask that Knows when it needs to answer, like, really quick…”
Aug 16, 2026
Silber: AI designers shouldn't be precious until technology hardens
“I think the biggest thing is like embracing that the technology might change in like a month or, you know, and maybe a certain interaction or setting or whatever that you needed Doesn't need to exist, or now a new one does need to exist, or a new capability is…”
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Silber: Product teams still need dedicated PM, design, and engineering specialists
“I do still think that, and maybe this is thinking about it from like a slightly larger company perspective, but I think you do still need people that have certain responsibilities, right? Because if you have one person that's expected to design, to rally a tea…”
Aug 16, 2026 bullish
Silber: Proactivity and external context will transform ChatGPT user interaction
“I think proactivity is a big untapped kind of part of the experience that we're really excited to think about. You know, we're starting to see this with ChatGPD work now where it actually has pretty good suggestions based on, you know, your calendar or your Sl…”
Aug 16, 2026 neutral
Aug 16, 2026 positive
Silber: AI interfaces must eliminate mode switching to reach billions
“And eventually what we want, what we know, and we think about this a lot in design is like, it will true, like, Things will truly become like for billions of users when they don't have to like think about a switch or a mode or anything like that. And so we kno…”
Aug 16, 2026 neutral
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Knowledge work AI requires showing intermediate citations and in-progress work
“A lot of work that we have done and have to continue to do is continue to adapt the product to knowledge work, which means way more focus on Making ChatGPT your collaborator, allowing you to see all the in-progress work, see its citations and inputs, help you …”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Great collaborators prefer rough drafts over fully polished documents
“Very few great people want to interact with like a perfectly polished, finished idea, like a perfectly polished idea. Their new ideas just like bounce off of it versus something that has more crags and more rough edges that they too can polish with you togethe…”
Aug 30, 2026
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Meeting prep time should match total collective attendee time
“I have this like personal belief that if I'm going to make someone read my document, I have to at least read it first that number of times. Or I think about this in meetings, too, that if I'm gonna call a meeting with a set of people, I need to have prepped th…”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: Prompt-built web apps replace docs and sheets in PM workflows
“The easy reach of building a site all the time has changed what my day-to-day looks like, which often in previous worlds used to look like creating lots of artifacts, like dachshunds, cheats, and whatever it might be. Now I just make sites all the time.”
Aug 30, 2026
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: Codex development process remains unchanged despite shifting market perception
“And actually with the Codex app the team who initially got it up and running and we're working on it we're super, again, user focused, tight iteration loop, really dog food at the thing, like mainline to the app as much as possible to get get everything right …”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: OpenAI's goal is eliminating manual model toggles in ChatGPT
“Our north star here is that users do not need to make decisions between picking between all these different options. Ideally, there is no toggle here that you go to the box, you type in your tasks. Like I would like to build a really awesome app that I don't k…”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: ChatGPT Work executes tasks in the cloud while offline
“Even more transformatively, go try it on mobile, then take like a long subway ride or something like that, or a muni ride. And when you pop out after having no service, the thing is done for you. That's the part that feels super duper magical. You're not like …”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: AI products fail unless built for models 2-3 months out
“You fail if you build for where the models are now. You fail if you build for where you think the models will be in a year. Like, both outcomes are equally wrong, and I'm sure many people have talked about this, but both outcomes are really equally wrong. If y…”
Aug 30, 2026
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: OpenAI operates with extremely limited top-down management
“OpenAI is actually founders-led which is that everyone inside the company, especially in their area, is in essence kind of a founder to some extent. The level of like top-down direction at OpenAI is extremely limited relative to places I've worked for prior.”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026 bullish
Seshan: AI agents will evolve into persistent coworkers needing periodic syncs
“People are increasingly thinking about agents that are persistent, that feel like teammates, that feel like coworkers. Where you can work with them the way I might work with someone on my team, which is they do a whole bunch of work. I provide input and then t…”
Aug 30, 2026 negative
Seshan: Long docs no longer signal rigor; prototypes and mocks win
“A long dock is not a signal that you thought through something because you can easily produce a long dock That indicates that you haven't, and so actually the point, maybe one of the biggest changes I've experienced personally in my day-to-day, which has been …”
Sep 6, 2026 neutral