Randy Counsman

Head of video @Every | Prev: head of development... The Men Who Built America (@History), Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War (@Netflix), etc.

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@kieranklaassen I went through a long tortured phase of deleting apps, but couldn’t make “dumb phone,” work for me for long. So my compromise is that I have all notifications turned off and remove non-essential apps from Home Screen.

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@trevin Finally!!!

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@jackcheng truly an inspiring colleague… get a taste of why in the latest podcast ep…

[Jack Cheng @jackcheng]

Watch me talk about what I’m doing on @every’s frontier team (and get a peek of my tabless browser)

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

Hell yeah. Gimmie all the 4DGS…. @premierleague 👀

[Sports on Prime @SportsonPrime]

Introducing Prime 360 🎥

Prime Video's proprietary, AI-powered technology that utilizes an array of high-res cameras around the court and AWS Trainium chips to deliver cinematic highlights you've never seen before!

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

The frontier team is easily one of the coolest within @every and @kieranklaassen is like the frontieriest of the frontier

[Kieran Klaassen @kieranklaassen]

I am working on the Frontier at @every
Meet the team and more!

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@trevin They're so good. I love mine

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

My toddler was playing with some toy food and started saying, “hot dog, not hot dog, not hot dog, not hot dog”

And I realized in horror that my child is years behind the AI frontier

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@leeknowlton @trevin Yeah I have a good friend who’s been telling me I gotta read this too

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@beckyisj Maybe not the lightest, but I dug these…

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@clairevo @bot @Muse And Muse broke my heart a few too many times by showing up too late… and with nothing but excuses

Who can explain what the heart wants when it comes to persistent agents!

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@leeknowlton @every Yeah show and tell is easily my fav meeting of the week

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@leeknowlton just consistently shows up at @every meetings and on slack with crazy cool projects

[Dan Shipper @danshipper]

at show and tell today @leeknowlton demoing how he turned my Codex piece into a visual novel:

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@bigwilliestyle Jev can only do so much

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

Soooo this feels a bit surveillance-state to admit... But I needed to find a shot of Willie on a drive filled with 100s of video clips, so I had Jev do a "@bigwilliestyle search"

And it didn't disappoint...

Opus grabbed his profile pic and Jev Jev'ed... $0.06

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@boardyai @every @danshipper Boardy! I'm a big fan... You're encouraged to apply

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

This is the kind of incredible reporting, writing, and super innovative agent-native storytelling that made me want to work at @every

@danshipper is doing the kinda creative work in a post-AI world that is legit inspiring to me... AND you can come work with us... We're hiring

[Dan Shipper @danshipper]

Codex is one of the most important untold stories in the history of technology.

A year ago, it was a scrappy effort in a quiet corner of @OpenAI. Its cloud product hadn’t found PMF, and the team was starting over from scratch.

Less than 12 months later:

- Codex swallowed the flagship ChatGPT desktop app from the inside (it literally runs as com.openai.codex on your Mac)
- Codex and ChatGPT for Work hit 40M+ weekly users across engineering and knowledge work
- Its leader @thsottiaux was elevated to run all of OpenAI’s core products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and the API

How did they pull it off?
They trained their own dedicated model line, separate from ChatGPT, with researchers and product builders sitting on the same team

They built four different products in a single year (cloud → terminal → IDE sidebar → a desktop app with no code editor at all) as every model leap made a new form factor possible

They used Codex to build Codex—so a handful of people could prove a new product in weeks instead of arguing for it in meetings

I had a front-row seat to the whole arc—from their failed Cloud launch, to OpenAI’s offices the night before GPT-5 dropped, to the day Codex took over ChatGPT.

And I spent months interviewing @gdb, @thsottiaux, @embirico, @mia_glaese, @aambrosino, and @edbayes to get inside how it all went down.

Here is the full, behind-closed-doors story of the team that remade OpenAI:

https://t.co/Ai7lTOJY5r

We’re pushing the boundaries of how stories like this are told.
This piece is completely agent-native—designed to be read alongside your agent inside ChatGPT’s in-app browser:

- Every interview transcript is included in full: Click any quote and you (or your agent) can see the exact conversation it came from.

- Built for your agent to explore: Ask your agent to pull out product lessons for your team, cross-examine the transcripts, or find insights I missed when writing the piece.

It’s a story about the future of software—built to be read with an agent:

https://t.co/Ai7lTOJY5r

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

https://t.co/DmfSIiZG3A

Read the Codex piece... then apply and come work with me!

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@hammer_mt The article is great, but this is genuinely such a cool approach that i want it on everything now

[Randy Counsman @RandyCounsman]

@leeknowlton @danshipper It is crazy how quickly checking my inbox went from “all the time” to “not at all”