Inside OpenAI's Agentic Software Factory: Codex Usage Hit 90% Among Non-Engineers in Four Months
The Pragmatic Engineer · rss · 2026-09-15
The Pragmatic Engineer tours OpenAI HQ and interviews seven engineering leads on how Codex took over everything: non-engineering orgs went from 0% to 90% usage in four months, IDE usage is collapsing, PRs need rethinking, and automated 'software factories' like Perf Factory dispatch Codex agents to fix production issues. Also covers /goal long-running agents, domain experts embedded in engineering teams, billion-user infra scaling, and how the engineering job itself is changing.
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