“We’re talking about roughly a 10x increase in load on some systems. At most companies, that kind of growth might happen over two or three years. At OpenAI, we see it in about six months. That level of acceleration exposes bottlenecks everywhere”
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From “Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory”, found 2026-10-14.
Version control, CI/CD and release processes all have to absorb it. OpenAI’s answers include agents that babysit a PR to green, review tiered by risk with auto-approval in low-risk areas that opt in, and specialized review agents.