Vaibhav Srivastav (OpenAI)
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Vaibhav Srivastav (OpenAI) on GPT-5.5 & Codex
OpenAI's Vaibhav Srivastav joins the studio to recap shipping since AI Engineer London: GPT-5.5 (1M+ enterprises and 28T tokens in week one), GPT Image 2.0, and the real-time model series. He details Codex's growth from ~500K to 4M+ weekly active users, community builds like an Android Codex client and an agent that made $15 from open-source bounties unprompted via slash-goal long-running tasks, Chrome integration he used to file expenses, ~150 plugins including an Adobe Premiere Pro bridge, and using Codex to prep interview briefs.