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Sherwin Wu
Head of Engineering, Platform @ OpenAI
Leads engineering for OpenAI's API platform.
βIf you talk to a lot of engineers, the thing that annoys them the most is after you've written your beautiful code, how do you get it into production, covering engineering tradeoffs, AI product work, and team leadership.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | Head of Engineering, Platform (Member of Technical Staff) | 2022-present |
| Opendoor | Engineering Manager & Product Lead | 2016-2022 |
| Quora | Senior Software Engineer (Feed Ranking & Recommendations) | ~2014-2016 |
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β100% of our PRs are reviewed by Codex daily as well. So basically any code that goes into production that's merged in, Codex kind of has its eyes on and suggests improvements, suggests changes in the ...β
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Sherwin Wu V2
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βYeah. Yeah. He's a great user of Codex. I know he's in close touch with the team, gives us great feedback. Not surprised that he uses it. I mean, sorry, it's called OpenClaw now.β
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Sherwin Wu V2
6:28
βOpenClaw is a great product. And then I saw that this morning, I mean, this is very recent, but this morning, I think the moltbook kind of like we've shared as well and seeing all of the AI agents tal...β
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Sherwin Wu V2
6:38
βYeah. I think that the analogy is great. And yeah, the crazy thing for me is just the staying power of that book, SICP. It's called the wizard book. People call it the wizard book because that is the ...β
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Sherwin Wu V2
12:12
βThere's a whole bunch of other learnings from this group, which I think is fascinating to explore, but yeah, removing that escape hatch of no longer using the AI has allowed them to start piecing toge...β
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14:53
βYou kind of see this applied to the non-engineering domains like support or operations where previously the size of a support team might be limited, but as you can pass off more things to agents, you ...β
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22:30
βFourth order is too giga-brain for me. I can't think that far ahead.β
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28:22
βYeah, I can't imagine what it's like to be him right now. It must be absolutely insane. It's probably like the months after we launched ChatGPT, the craziness that was.β
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Sherwin Wu V2
31:11
βYeah. I think a lot of the lessons that I've learned here, I don't know how specific it is to the OpenAI API or some of our enterprise products in particular. I think my management philosophy has obvi...β
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Sherwin Wu V2
32:12
βOne of these principles is what I talked to you about before, which is spending a lot of time with top performers, like actually spending... And to be very concrete, it's like more than 50% of your ti...β
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32:31
βYeah, you asked the model, you ask the AI to do the second and third order.β
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Sherwin Wu V2
35:56
βAnticipate that and anticipate what the blockers will be next month too.β
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