by Laura Entis
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Software development is about to change in ways many teams outside the frontier labs haven’t had to think about yet. Our new interactive piece, “Before the Deluge,” shows what that looks like from the inside.
We spoke with six members of OpenAI’s infrastructure team—including its vice president of applied infrastructure engineering—about three converging pressures: an overwhelming surge of AI-generated code, software-development infrastructure pushed to its limits, and a fundamental redesign of how code gets reviewed and kept reliable.
What they’re working through now is a preview of what’s coming for software development everywhere.
“Before the Deluge” reveals how those pressures interact, what the engineers are doing to hold the system together, and what the broader software community will need to reckon with as AI-generated code becomes routine. It’s a close look at a stress test already underway—at one of the organizations most responsible for accelerating it.
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