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Ryan Lopopolo discusses how his team at OpenAI successfully shipped a product using AI coding agents without any human-written code.

Most engineering teams are still arguing about whether to use AI coding agents. Ryan Lopopolo's team at OpenAI shipped an entire product with no human-written code — and onboarding a new engineer made the team faster within two weeks. That outcome didn't come from better prompts. It came from what Ryan calls Harness Engineering: the systems, constraints, and feedback loops that sit around the agent — the context it sees, the tools it can call, the tests and linters that close the loop, and ...

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Host: Tessl

Guest: Ryan Lopopolo

Topics covered

• AI coding agents
• Harness Engineering
• software development
• engineering teams
• product shipping

Keywords

• AI
• coding agents
• OpenAI
• software development
• Harness Engineering
• engineering teams
• product shipping

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Organizations: OpenAI

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