OpenAI says ChatGPT Work and Codex share one agent harness in its everything-app push
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-07-28
OpenAI product engineering lead Akshay Nathan explains how the company is trying to turn ChatGPT into an everything app.
In the interview, he says Codex unexpectedly took off among non-developers inside OpenAI, describes the shared agent harness behind Codex and ChatGPT Work, and lays out a broader plan: move from software engineers to knowledge workers and eventually everyone.
Key points include:
- persistent computers, artifacts, Sites, plugins, memory, and sub-agents
- why interactive websites may replace decks and spreadsheets
- how agents gather context from code, Slack, documents, and local files
- why OpenAI is merging agent experiences instead of keeping them separate
Related event: OpenAI Reveals Near-Universal Internal Adoption of Codex(2 posts)→
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