OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
At OpenAI, the Codex app has flipped traditional product development on its head: implementation is no longer the bottleneck — taste, curation, and judgment now define success. With AI making it trivial to build anything, the real challenge is deciding what to build, how to steer chaotic
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