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Why humans are AI's biggest bottleneck (and what's coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI)

Why humans are AI's biggest bottleneck (and what's coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI)

Alexander Embiricos, product lead for OpenAI's Codex, discusses the vision of AI as a proactive software engineering teammate, the product decisions that led to its explosive 20x growth, and why the real bottleneck to AGI-level productivity is shifting from model capability to human review speed.