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Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on the Codex team, walks through how a roughly 40-person group ships one of OpenAI’s core products. The setup is deliberately flat – most projects run with two or three people who own everything end-to-end, meetings are rare, and ideas flow bottom-up. What stands out is how aggressively they use their own tool internally: a single PM triaged over 100 bugs in an hour using Codex, new engineers onboard through the product itself, and large Python-to-Rust rewrites happen with AI assistance. Hundreds of reusable prompt skills encode team knowledge in a way that traditional documentation never managed to. The pattern of AI teams dogfooding their own coding tools is becoming the clearest signal of which products are actually production-ready.
