Seshan: Codex development process remains unchanged despite shifting market perception
Tara Seshan · AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead) · Aug 30, 2026 · at 40:06
Tara Seshan, product lead at OpenAI, responds to Lenny Rachitsky's question about what changed internally to drive recent positive developer community sentiment toward Codex.
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“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 folks started to realize that was happening on externally and on twitter and users started to really notice but the team was always really focused on users really focused on that iteration and it was merely the it's just how makes that like the market catching up that was the change and that process has not changed internally everyone still constantly uses the app everyone who's building it, obviously, as a developer, using it for development and is constantly fixing not only their own problems, but trying to listen to other people in the company's problems and user problems.”
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