Head of Platform Engineering, OpenAI
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Sherwin Wu, head of engineering for OpenAI, delivers the keynote speech, "Slowly, and Then All At Once: A survey of AI agents over the last three years and a glimpse into next three years," during Florida State University's AIMLx26 event in Tallahassee, Florida.
Sherwin Wu leads engineering for OpenAI’s API platform, where roughly 95% of engineers use Codex, often working with fleets of 10 to 20 parallel AI agents. We discuss: 1. What OpenAI did to cut code review times from 10-15 minutes to 2-3 minutes 2. How AI is changing the role of managers 3. Why the productivity gap between AI power users and everyone else is widening 4. Why “models will eat your scaffolding for breakfast” 5. Why the next 12 to 24 months are a rare window where engineers can leap ahead before the role fully transforms Brought to you by: DX—The developer intelligence platform…
In this episode, a16z GP Martin Casado sits down with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for the OpenAI Platform, to break down how OpenAI organizes its platform across models, pricing, and infrastructure, and how it is shifting from a single general-purpose model to a portfolio of specialized systems, custom fine-tuning options, and node-based agent workflows. They get into why developers tend to stick with a trusted model family, what builds that trust, and why the industry moved past the idea of one model that can do everything. Sherwin also explains the evolution from prompt engineering to c…
At OpenAI DevDay, we sit down with Sherwin Wu and Christina Cai from the OpenAI Platform Team to discuss the launch of AgentKit - a comprehensive suite of tools for building, deploying, and optimizing AI agents. Christina walks us through the live demo she performed on stage, building a customer support agent in just 8 minutes using the visual Agent Builder, while Sherwin shares insights on how OpenAI is inverting the traditional website-chatbot paradigm by embedding apps directly within ChatGPT through the new Apps SDK. The conversation explores how OpenAI is tackling the challenges developer…
0:00 – Intro & Sherwin Wu’s journey to OpenAI 0:28 – Early impressions: why DALL·E 2 was a turning point 2:02 – Role as Head of Engineering at OpenAI 4:09 – How OpenAI’s API & platform evolved 6:23 – Scaling challenges at unprecedented growth 7:37 – GPT-5 reflections: tradeoffs, latency & lessons learned 10:15 – Why GPT-5 launch strategy missed the mark 11:36 – Building a developer ecosystem & unexpected use cases 13:18 – Consumer surprises: AI toys for kids 14:26 – Balancing ChatGPT vs. API developers 17:03 – Diverging use cases: enterprise vs. consumer voice AI 18:13 – Lessons from successfu…
Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week, guest host Altimeter’s Apoorv Agrawal explores how OpenAI is reshaping enterprise with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering OpenAI Platform, and Olivier Godement, Head of Product OpenAI Platform. From T-Mobile’s AI voice support to Amgen’s drug breakthroughs to Los Alamos’ air-gapped supercomputer—this episode dives into the real world of AI at scale. Enjoy another episode of BG2! Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:50) OpenAI’s Enterprise Mission: Beyond ChatGPT (06:00) Case Stud…
A new framework to navigate the unique considerations for scaling non-deterministic apps from prototype to production. Speakers: Shyamal Hitesh Anadkat, Applied AI Engineer at @OpenAI Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering, Developer Platform at @OpenAI
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