OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
Community Score: 50% | 50.3K views | 3mo
0 community ratings: null thumbs up, null thumbs down
Sherwin Wu leads engineering for OpenAI’s API platform, where roughly 95% of engineers use Codex, often working with fleets of 10 to 20 parallel AI agents. *We discuss:* 1. What OpenAI did to cut code review times from 10-15 minutes to 2-3 minutes 2. How AI is changing the role of managers 3. Why the productivity gap between AI power users and everyone else is widening 4. Why “models will eat your scaffolding for breakfast” 5. Why the next 12 to 24 months are a rare window where engineers can leap ahead before the role fully transforms *Brought to you by:* DX—The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: https://getdx.com/lenny Sentry—Code breaks, fix it faster: https://sentry.io/lenny Datadog—Now home to Eppo, the leading experimentation and feature flagging platform: https://www.datadoghq.com/lenny *Episode transcript:* https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/engineers-are-becoming-sorcerers *Archive of all Lenny's Podcast transcripts:* https://www.dropbox.com/s
More from Lenny's Podcast
- Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny — Score: 50%
- Four signs a CEO is the real deal — Score: 50%
- CEOs aren't there to be liked — Score: 50%
- How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan — Score: 50%
- Software engineers are like wizards — Score: 50%
- "Codex reviews all of our PRs" — Score: 50%