OpenAI’s infra team is building for software made by thousands of humans and agents
danshipper · x · 2026-07-29
An in-depth piece about how OpenAI’s infrastructure team builds software in an era of “software skyscrapers.”
- The argument: software is no longer written by a small group of humans typing code, but by thousands of humans and agents collaborating at huge scale.
- The article focuses on the unsung infrastructure engineers who make that possible.
- It looks at how OpenAI thinks about supporting 100x more code and 1000x more contributors, and how agents fit into that workflow.
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