Episode

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

Tara Seshan, who leads product for ChatGPT work and Codex at OpenAI, describes AI's emerging third era of persistent co-worker agents following the chat and agent eras, and explains why building must target where models will be in two to three months rather than where they are now. She discusses OpenAI's founder-led culture, the shift from writing docs for others to prototyping and testing as the primary communication tool, and why ambition, not automation, is the biggest lever now available to product teams.