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A look inside an engineering team @OpenAI with Dylan Vassallo StaffEng

Dylan Vassallo is an engineering manager at OpenAI leading the People Innovation Labs team — an eng, product, and design team embedded within the People org, building AI-powered tools for recruiting, HR, internal comms, and the employee experience.In this episode, Dylan talks about what it actually looks like to be an engineering team inside a frontier AI company, how non-engineers are becoming builders, and what the "graduation" process looks like when a prototype needs to become a production system.Links & Referenceshttps://x.com/dylanveeOpenAI Codex – https://openai.com/codexLatticehttps://lattice.com — performance management platform mentionedLinear – https://linear.app — used for team project trackingWorkday – https://workday.com — referenced as system of record
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