Dylan Vassallo is an engineering manager at OpenAI leading the People Innovation Labs team — an eng, product, and design team embedded within the People org, building AI-powered tools for recruiting, HR, internal comms, and the employee experience.

In this episode, Dylan talks about what it actually looks like to be an engineering team inside a frontier AI company, how non-engineers are becoming builders, and what the "graduation" process looks like when a prototype needs to become a production system.

Links & References

https://x.com/dylanvee
OpenAI Codex - https://openai.com/codex
Lattice - https://lattice.com — performance management platform mentioned
Linear - https://linear.app — used for team project tracking
Workday - https://workday.com — referenced as system of record