“Among some teams at OpenAI, we saw the number of landed PRs increase by 500% in the first three weeks.”

— Alex Kotliarskyi, Victor Zhu and Zach Brock, OpenAI · An increase in exploration from working this way

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From “An open-source spec for Codex orchestration: Symphony”, found 2026-10-14.

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Self-reported and not a controlled study. The same section credits the system with watching CI, rebasing, resolving conflicts and retrying flaky checks, so the gain is measured as landed work rather than code written.