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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

2 DAYS AGO
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

2 DAYS AGO
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Tibo Sottiaux leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Under his stewardship, OpenAI has shipped some of its most consequential consumer launches: Codex, ChatGPT Work, and most recently, the new Dots personal agent platform. He joined me at DevDay, hours after h...

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Tibo Sottiaux, who leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI, explains how AI agents are changing software, work, careers, and the internet. He shares OpenAI’s product vision, operating principles, safety approach, and his own experiences using agents.
00:53
The future is a system that learns
03:56
The end of manually configured AI workflows
06:41
Work is about to change radically again
08:59
Talk to your spaceship and it moves
11:15
Dots will become a virtual team
14:18
Useful plugins earn recommendations
17:00
AI should expand human creativity and taste
20:48
The agent caught the outage before the demo
23:50
Taste matters more than ever
26:43
Be a sponge
30:27
I took production down on day three
32:30
Human experiences are underinvested in
34:58
Safety requires investment beyond the primary agent

Chapters

Introduction to Tibo Sottiaux
00:00
How Tibo uses AI in his daily work
01:12
The vision for always-on AI agents
03:10
How AI will continue to change work
06:15
Bringing Codex, ChatGPT, and Dots together
07:32
The sci-fi inspiration behind the technology
08:20
Building AI with the community
09:02
Understanding the Dots structure
10:13
OpenAI’s open ecosystem and plugin revenue sharing
11:34
How plugins get discovered and recommended
13:39
The research behind Dots
14:39
Where humans will remain valuable
16:20
Agent fatigue, loneliness, and context switching
17:25
The pressure to do more with AI
18:55
An agent that spotted a production outage before a live demo
20:09
Agent guardrails and connecting multiple devices
21:42
The skills becoming more valuable in the AI era
23:25
Advice for people early in their careers
25:56
How teams build and ship inside OpenAI
27:18
Autonomy, trust, and learning from mistakes
28:59
Building for a future where agents dominate internet activity
30:45
What Tibo has changed his mind about
32:41
OpenAI’s approach to AI safety and alignment
33:55
Moving beyond model pickers toward simpler AI
36:15

Transcript

Tibo Sottiaux: Often when I look at what people are building out there, it's just like, you're not quite getting it. You know, if you were just like pushing yourself and just really imagining, like, all of this being roughly 10 times better than it is toda...