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Published · transcript-backedShawn Wang: belief
7 Apr 2026 Latent Space Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony
“All the coding review agent, it can merge autonomously. I think that’s something that a lot of people aren’t comfortable with.”
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- Shawn Wang
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- 7 Apr 2026
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- Latent Space
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…But also on the code authoring agent side, we also gave it the flexibility to either defer or push back against review feedback, right? This happens all the time, right? Like I happen to notice something and leave a code review, [00:15:00] which. Could blow up the scope by a factor of two. I usually don’t mean for that to be addressed Exactly. In the moment. It’s more of an FYI file it to the backlog, pick it up in the next fix it week sort of thing. And without the context that this is permissible, the coding agents are gonna bias toward what they do, which is following instructions. Yeah. I do wanted to check in on a couple things, right? Sure. All the coding review agent, it can merge autonomously. I think that’s something that a lot of people aren’t comfortable with. And you have a list here of how much agents do they do Product code and tests, CI configuration and release tooling, internal Devrel tools, documentation eval, harness review, comments, scripts that manage the repository itself, production dashboard definition files, like everything. Yes. And so they’re just all churning at the same time, is there like a record that, that any human on the team pulls to stop everything Because we are building a native application here. We’re not doing continuous deploy. So there’s still a human in the loop for cutting the release branch. I see. We require a blessed human approved smoke test of the app before we promote it to distribution, these sort of things.…
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