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Gergely Orosz quote, Sep 15, 2026

Author, The Pragmatic Engineer · Sep 15, 2026 · Post, Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory

Within a year, Codex has gone from a “nice-to-have” tool to being the backbone of pretty much everything at the company.

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Gergely Orosz, Author, The Pragmatic Engineer
Where
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
Topics
Coding, Agents
Company
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Source
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/openai-software-factory

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