Shawn 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

“I think like the only argument I have against this is basically scale testing, which obviously the larger pieces of software like Linux, MySQL, he calls up even the Datadog and Temporals and then maybe security testing where Yes.”

— Shawn Wang

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Speaker: Shawn Wang
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Claim type: belief
Recorded: 7 Apr 2026
Publisher: Latent Space
Episode: Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony

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…One other neat thing about [00:27:00] this too is when we deploy Codex Security on the repo, it is able to deeply review and change. The internalized dependencies in a much lower friction way than it would be to like, push patches upstream, wait for them to be released, pull them down, make sure that’s compatible with all the transitive I have in my repo and things like that. So it’s also much lower friction to internalize some of these things if code is free. ‘cause the tokens are cheap sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. I think like the only argument I have against this is basically scale testing, which obviously the larger pieces of software like Linux, MySQL, he calls up even the Datadog and Temporals and then maybe security testing where Yes. Classically, I think, is it linis tos, it said security open source is the best disinfectant. Many eyes.…

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