OpenAI's internal meme: 'Are you mainlining it yet?' drives Codex focus
lennysan · x · 2026-08-31
A key internal meme at OpenAI asks if employees are using their products all day, every day. This 'mainlining' concept is cited as a major reason for the recent vibe shift toward Codex. Tara Seshan, PM for Codex and ChatGPT, reveals the strategy is to build for where frontier models will be in 2-3 months, emphasizing that the future of knowledge work is steering, not rowing.
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