“In a system where agent throughput far exceeds human attention, corrections are cheap, and waiting is expensive.”

— Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI · Throughput changes the merge philosophy

Quote · openai.com

From “Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world”, found 2026-10-14.

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The repository runs with minimal blocking merge gates and short-lived pull requests, and handles test flakes with follow-up runs. The opposite bet to Stripe’s cap on CI rounds.