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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
With Lenny Rachitsky, Tibo Sottiaux · Sunday, October 4, 2026
Tibo Sottiaux, Head of ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI, joins Lenny Rachitsky at DevDay to discuss the launch of Dots, OpenAI's new autonomous personal agent platform. Sottiaux outlines why internet traffic will soon be dominated by AI agents, how agent architectures will move beyond manual workflow graphs, and how OpenAI approaches safety and secondary monitoring compute.
Key takeaways
- Memorizing syntax and typing speed are depreciating assets as AI takes over basic code generation. Read more →
- Notion built an MCP connector and immediately faced a massive influx of automated queries from external agents. Read more →
- OpenAI dedicates massive API compute infrastructure to secondary monitoring systems running parallel to primary agent execution. Read more →
- OpenAI is consolidating ChatGPT, Codex, and Dots into a unified experience that eliminates model pickers and configuration menus. Read more →
- OpenAI distributes and recommends third-party plugins directly inside ChatGPT conversation threads based on retention and product quality rather than search keywords. Read more →
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