Braintrust Shifts 50% of Team to Codex, Turning Feature Requests Into Preview Branches in Minutes
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Updated · OpenAI · May 29
Braintrust Shifts 50% of Team to Codex, Turning Feature Requests Into Preview Branches in Minutes
3 articles · Updated · OpenAI · May 29
Half of Braintrust’s team moved to Codex within one month, letting engineers turn customer feature requests into working preview branches in minutes.
That speed has changed the company’s workflow: requests that previously went into a backlog can now be copied into Codex, built quickly, and shown to customers in real time.
CEO Ankur Goyal said Codex with GPT-5.5 also supports broader experimentation, with engineers writing tests, setting up sandbox environments, and letting the model solve problems more autonomously.
For Braintrust, an observability and eval platform for AI products, the faster loop means more customer ideas can be tested immediately and more engineering experiments can be attempted.
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