OpenAI researcher: top staff run Codex agents 70+ hours a day, may upend pyramid orgs
daveholtz · x · 2026-09-16
OpenAI researcher Dave Holtz shares highlights from his podcast conversation with Sabrina Halper. Notably, internal Codex usage data shows OpenAI's most frontier researchers have Codex agents working over 70 hours a day cumulatively — a real force multiplier. He also suggests traditional pyramid-shaped org structures may stop making sense when everyone can delegate work to numerous parallel agents.
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