Zach Brock

Member of Technical Staff @openai.

[Zach Brock @z]

"Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a process."

[Zach Brock @z]

My personal AGI benchmark is a touchless sink that actually works

[Zach Brock @z]

Never before has the distance between idle speculation and infographics been smaller

[Zach Brock @z]

Vernor Vinge’s 2003 Novella “The Cookie Monster” predicts the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident.

[Zach Brock @z]

@joshu Like https://t.co/2yTLoiNPw1?

[Zach Brock @z]

@emollick You can increase the intelligence level in voice mode if you tap the settings button in the top right

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Mine is “ask me 3 open ended and 10 multiple choice follow up questions if anything is unclear”

[Thomas Ricouard @Dimillian]

My new favorite prompt: take a step back. Wonderful results

[Zach Brock @z]

Little known fact, @thezhupig coined the term “Harness Engineering”

[Zach Brock @z]

chatppt

[ChatGPT @ChatGPT]

Have you ever thought to yourself: I really don't want to make this PowerPoint.

Good news: ChatGPT can now create and edit presentations directly in PowerPoint.

Build, update, understand, and polish presentations directly in PowerPoint while keeping slides editable.

Now in beta, we’d love your feedback 👀

[Zach Brock @z]

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[Tom Brown @NotTomBrown]

We’re expanding our partnership with @SpaceX, and will be scaling up on GB200 capacity in Colossus 2 throughout June.

Appreciate @elonmusk and the team helping us find good homes for the Claudes.

[Zach Brock @z]

@mvanhorn @trevin @steipete Yes! clis are the way

[Zach Brock @z]

@vayzenburger comms makes us delete the ones that aren’t

[Zach Brock @z]

congrats to anthropic for defeating grok in the market and feasting upon the compute of their fallen enemy

[Zach Brock @z]

@tlbtlbtlb How are you fitting 100k desks in 1 acre?

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https://t.co/uLTixwNL0D

[Zach Brock @z]

Learning how to use coding agents effectively is the most interesting engineering problem in the world right now.

The solution @alex_frantic came up with for our team is Symphony.

I think Symphony has a few really interesting ideas embedded in it:
1. The approach itself. Giving coding agents access to task tracking and changing their goal to "convince a human to merge this code" is the clear next phase of software engineering.

2. Software as a spec. Instead of code, Symphony is first a spec.md that you can materialize into any programming language you want by passing it to your coding agent of choice. This is an early demonstration of a new way I expect open-source software to be developed and shared in the future.

3. Lowering the cost of code. When reliably kicking off a feature or bug fix is something you can do from your phone in a few seconds, it radically changes your relationship with product prioritization and exploration.

Read the whole blog post below and let me know what you think.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

📣 What if every open issue had a Codex agent?

That’s the idea behind Symphony, an open-source agent orchestrator for Codex that turns task trackers into always-on systems for agentic work, letting humans focus on review and direction.

[Zach Brock @z]

@alex_frantic really did an incredible job with https://t.co/HyM4517hjS

[Zach Brock @z]

One easy trick to connect 25 Codex agents to Linear and increase your PR throughput by 500% that THEY don't want you to know about

https://t.co/uLTixwNL0D

[Zach Brock @z]

anyway enjoy 5.5 its really good

[Zach Brock @z]

People who join OpenAI are always surprised to learn that we basically ship stuff as soon as it’s ready