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[Entrata @EntrataSoftware]

Entrata and @OpenAI announce a long-term collaboration to define the future of Autonomous Property Management. https://t.co/BzcnBWUUMz

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Software development is undergoing a renaissance in front of our eyes.

If you haven't used the tools recently, you likely are underestimating what you're missing. Since December, there's been a step function improvement in what tools like Codex can do. Some great engineers at OpenAI yesterday told me that their job has fundamentally changed since December. Prior to then, they could use Codex for unit tests; now it writes essentially all the code and does a great deal of their operations and debugging. Not everyone has yet made that leap, but it's usually because of factors besides the capability of the model.

Every company faces the same opportunity now, and navigating it well — just like with cloud computing or the Internet — requires careful thought. This post shares how OpenAI is currently approaching retooling our teams towards agentic software development. We're still learning and iterating, but here's how we're thinking about it right now:

As a first step, by March 31st, we're aiming that:

(1) For any technical task, the tool of first resort for humans is interacting with an agent rather than using an editor or terminal.
(2) The default way humans utilize agents is explicitly evaluated as safe, but also productive enough that most workflows do not need additional permissions.

In order to get there, here's what we recommended to the team a few weeks ago:

1. Take the time to try out the tools. The tools do sell themselves — many people have had amazing experiences with 5.2 in Codex, after having churned from codex web a few months ago. But many people are also so busy they haven't had a chance to try Codex yet or got stuck thinking "is there any way it could do X" rather than just trying.
- Designate an "agents captain" for your team — the primary person responsible for thinking about how agents can be brought into the teams' workflow.
- Share experiences or questions in a few designated internal channels
- Take a day for a company-wide Codex hackathon

2. Create skills and AGENTS[.md].
- Create and maintain an AGENTS[.md] for any project you work on; update the AGENTS[.md] whenever the agent does something wrong or struggles with a task.
- Write skills for anything that you get Codex to do, and commit it to the skills directory in a shared repository

3. Inventory and make accessible any internal tools.
- Maintain a list of tools that your team relies on, and make sure someone takes point on making it agent-accessible (such as via a CLI or MCP server).

4. Structure codebases to be agent-first. With the models changing so fast, this is still somewhat untrodden ground, and will require some exploration.
- Write tests which are quick to run, and create high-quality interfaces between components.

5. Say no to slop. Managing AI generated code at scale is an emerging problem, and will require new processes and conventions to keep code quality high
- Ensure that some human is accountable for any code that gets merged. As a code reviewer, maintain at least the same bar as you would for human-written code, and make sure the author understands what they're submitting.

6. Work on basic infra. There's a lot of room for everyone to build basic infrastructure, which can be guided by internal user feedback. The core tools are getting a lot better and more usable, but there's a lot of infrastructure that currently go around the tools, such as observability, tracking not just the committed code but the agent trajectories that led to them, and central management of the tools that agents are able to use.

Overall, adopting tools like Codex is not just a technical but also a deep cultural change, with a lot of downstream implications to figure out. We encourage every manager to drive this with their team, and to think through other action items — for example, per item 5 above, what else can prevent a lot of "functionally-correct but poorly-maintainable code" from creeping into codebases.

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

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[MethaneSAT @MethaneSAT]

What if we could slow global warming in our lifetime?

@MillieChuBaird1 takes us from Earth to space and back, proving that the climate story can be one of hope. @TEDTalks

[Mindful Maven @mindfulmaven_]

MIT University just released free online courses.

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[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

Just visited one of the most famous fort in Goa fort Aguda. We paid ₹25 entry fee and there is no single place for drinking water. Some of us can afford a paid one but there are still many who can benefit from it in this summer.@TourismGoa humble request to fix it.

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

@jstanier @patkua Thank you !

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

@jstanier I have been following your site very closely and found is super useful for our leadership transformation journey. Thanks a ton for such a wonderful content. Do you have any specific guidelines where I can find how team lead role is different than a tech lead role ?

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Think twice before you post a picture with your partner. A 'cute' challenge can go wrong if not cautious!

#BeAware

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

Join the Pony Express to deliver 100 letters! #GoogleDoodle
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[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

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[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

Be My Eyes ~ Lend your eyes to the Blind #BeMyEyes https://t.co/QqdZIIOj5Y

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

@DavidRooN3y @ardalis @martinfowler @KentBeck @jbogard The latter. They last. Languages come and go. Principles and patterns are persistent. You cannot be a master of a language without mastering the Principles and patterns that undergird all of software.

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

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[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

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[Paul Dragoonis @dr4goonis]

#PHP's experimental JIT branch is currently 54% faster than PHP7.1. We are in for another huge performance jump in our next major release :)

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

This is awesome... https://t.co/ALCe4u4XSX

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Adding several more countries to Model 3 order page tonight. Check for details, but will include India, Brazil, SA, SK, NZ, Sing & Ireland.

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

Most imp part of our personality is our thought. Bec looks can gain only attraction, which is temporary. But thought can win hearts forever.

[Preetam Yadav @PreetamForU]

@CMOMaharashtra @Dev_Fadnavis @IndiaToday can't we simply preserve existing forts built by MAHARAJ insted, that wold real salute to Maharaj.