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Published · transcript-backedSherwin Wu: belief
12 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast “Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu
“A very good example right now is there are, I would say, a group of engineers internally who are really Codex-pilled and are thinking through what the best practices are for interacting with this model.”
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- Sherwin Wu
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I love this advice that the way you described it is you've always leaned into top performers and spent more time with them, unblocked them, make sure they're happy. The way Marc Andreessen was just on the podcast, the way he phrased it is AI makes good people better and it makes great people exceptional. And what you're saying here is just doing this more and more is probably the right move, spending more time with the best people on your team to unblock them, make sure they have everything they need. Yeah. A very good example right now is there are, I would say, a group of engineers internally who are really Codex-pilled and are thinking through what the best practices are for interacting with this model. And that is just an extremely high leverage thing for them to do. And so just like as a manager, I'm just like, yeah, go explore this. Whatever best practices come out of this, we have to share with the org. We do all these knowledge sharing sessions, we'll share documents and best practices everywhere. So things like that just elevate everyone. And so I view that as another example of this trend that we're seeing where the top performers really get exceptional. People just have a sense, this is big. AI is changing so much. The world is changing. It's going to be a huge deal. What do you think people aren't pricing in yet into what will change and to where things are heading? Just like what's an example of something you think are like, okay, we're not realizing this yet.…
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