Aug 30, 2026

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

Tara Seshan, who leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI, explores how AI is shifting knowledge work from rowing to steering, why ambition and human judgment are becoming key differentiators, how to build for models two to three months ahead, and how writing as thinking still matters. The conversation also covers OpenAI's founder-led culture, the design of Work mode, and practical uses like Sites and visualize.

Jul 28, 2026

OpenAI’s Plan to Make ChatGPT the Everything App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI

Akshay Nathan, head of Core Product Engineering at OpenAI, discusses the journey and rationale behind ChatGPT Work. He explains how Codex's unexpected adoption by non-developers led to a unified agent harness, blurring the lines between developer and knowledge worker tools. The conversation delves into model capabilities, the role of artifacts and interactive 'Sites' in replacing traditional documents, and how AI fosters a new era of 'T-shaped' generalists. Nathan emphasizes the shift in productivity bottlenecks to 'ideas and taste' and the importance of 'quality at-bats' over mere 'motion' in an AI-powered development landscape.