How PMs Ship 100K Lines of Code at OpenAI with Ryan Lopopolo, Member of Technical Staff

Podcast: The Growth Podcast · Aakash Gupta

Opublikowano: 2026-05-25

Today’s episode Most companies are still debating whether PMs should ship code. OpenAI is already debating the best ways for PMs to ship code. They’re living in the future. The builder behind a lot of that harness engineering is Ryan Lopopolo. He wrote the OpenAI post on harness engineering and runs a frontier team where PMs, designers, and engineers all ship using the same system. The wild part for me? His PMs shipped around 100K lines of production code. Did they open the IDE? Hell no...