How OpenAI Builds Products: an exclusive discussion with the Head of Developer Experience (Romain Huet, OpenAI) - #144

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Receive the key takeaways from this episode in my newsletter "How they Build" And for a free 30-minute Product audit, book a call with Stellar . -- In this episode, I sit down with Romain Huet, Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI. I had the chance to meet Romain during my trip to San Francisco last October, when I flew out to attend OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference — the epicenter of the company’s biggest announcements in years. Before joining OpenAI, Romain spent years building products at Stripe and has been living in San Francisco for nearly a decade, right at the heart of the tech scene. In our conversation, we dive into how Codex is reshaping the way products are built, what “developer experience” really means at OpenAI, how developer feedback influences their roadmap, and how AI is transforming product and engineering teams from the inside out. We also explore the pace of innovation within OpenAI, how product development there differs from traditional companies, and how Europe is quickly catching up in the global AI race.