Kevin Weil (OpenAI CPO) Interview Summary<p>- Models: Not commoditized but evolving rapidly. Intelligence increasing, costs dropping 10x yearly. GPT-5 will merge GPT and reasoning model series.<p>- Coding Automation:<p><pre><code> - O1 Preview: ~millionth best programmer
- O1: ~thousandth best
- O3 (upcoming): 175th best globally
- Will surpass humans at programming this year/next, not 2027 as Anthropic suggested
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- Deep Research:
OpenAI's best product since ChatGPT. Provides capabilities users couldn't achieve alone.<p>- Model Strengths:<p><pre><code> - GPT-4.5: Better at writing, human-like interaction
- O1/O3: Better at reasoning, structured problems
- Large models encode more "subtlety and nuance"
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- Future Applications:<p><pre><code> - AI tutoring for personalized education
- Robotics as the next frontier
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- Creation Value: Expertise + AI will still outperform.
Value shifts toward idea generation, management, and quality assessment.
I think this “coding will be automated” is that “the interview(hard) the job(easy) meme” but backwards.<p>It seems very obvious that an AI will solve all the hardest coding problems first because they’re all documented really well, but fuck if I can get Claude to figure out a basic css layout. In wrestling with Cursor and tailwind now.
You know what, let them do it. I'm ready to retire anyway.<p>I want to see what happens when somebody looks at the high-rise sand castle that is modern technology and decides that there wasn't enough sand involved.