Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — “Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu

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“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

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…

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