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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…”
Seshan: OpenAI ships internal developments to users faster than peers
“So much of what OpenAI does immediately becomes something that users can touch and feel in the product. And that cycle is faster than anywhere else I've seen.”
Seshan: Future of work shifts to humans steering while AI rows
“I do think that increasingly the future of work will look more like steering than rowing in the sense that there will be agents that you'll, you'll be able to work with that do a lot of the rowing and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship in the rig…”
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 …”
Seshan: Stripe maintained no role boundaries between engineers, PMs, and designers
“Actually like Stripe was very, very much this way where there are no boundaries around what a engineer could do versus a product manager could do versus a designer could do. Everyone could do anything.”
Seshan: Sutter Hill uses internal recruiting tool Reticle to map networks
“They have a secret tool called reticle where they have a map of, you know, everyone in that they've interacted with and the 10 best people that those people have interacted with that helps them be so, so effective at this.”
Seshan: ChatGPT Work mode runs on Codex under the hood
“In work mode, that's where under the covers, this is codex. We've removed some of like the coding UI, like you don't, you're not going to see a work tree pop up all of a sudden in, in work mode, but it is the same power to get things done”
Seshan: Ari Weinstein leads computer use initiatives at OpenAI
“Ari leads a lot of our computer use stuff at OpenAI and he's like shipped a whole bunch of great Things for computer use”
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 …”