OpenAI's Codex product lead: ambition, not capability, is the bottleneck now
lennysan · x · 2026-09-12
Tara Seshan, OpenAI product lead for Codex and ChatGPT Work, on Lenny's Podcast: easy work is now trivial and hard work is easy, so ambition separates people and companies. Her rules: humans steer while agents row (a level that keeps climbing), build for models 2-3 months out, ship prototypes instead of documents, and treat raising others' ambition as part of the job.
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