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Published · transcript-backedShawn Wang: evaluation
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
“It’s almost like you’re, it’s like a ratchet. It’s like you’re forcing build time discipline, because if you don’t, it’ll just grow and grow.”
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- Shawn Wang
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- evaluation
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- 7 Apr 2026
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- Latent Space
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…No. We just take that as a signal that we need to stop what we’re doing, double click, decompose a build graph a bit to get us to high back under so that we can able the agent continue to operate. It’s almost like you’re, it’s like a ratchet. It’s like you’re forcing build time discipline, because if you don’t, it’ll just grow and grow. That’s right. And you mentioned that my current, like the software I work on currently is at 12 minutes. It sucks. This has been my experience with platform teams in the past, where you have an envelope of acceptable build times and you let it go up to breach and then you spend two, three weeks to bring it back down to the lower end of the average low bed stop. But because tokens are so cheap Yeah. And we’re so insanely parallel with the model, we can just constantly be gardening this thing to make sure that we maintain these in variants, which means. There’s way less dispersion in the code and the SDLC, which means we can simplify in a way and rely on a lot more in variance as we write the software.…
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