Presentation: Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates
OpenAI's agents are now the invisible hand maintaining ChatGPT's speed. Martin Spier reveals how agentic workflows automate performance engineering at scale.

Why it matters
OpenAI has deployed always-on AI agents to handle continuous profiling, regression detection, and optimization—turning what was manual DevOps work into autonomous systems. This is agents doing real infrastructure work in production, not a pilot.
The key facts
5 to knowAgentic workflows dramatically increase code change volume at OpenAI
Always-on AI agents automate profiling, regression detection, and continuous optimization
Hidden systemic performance costs of rapid shipping beyond GPU capacity
Agents maintain product speed and scalability at global scale
Speaker: Martin Spier (OpenAI performance engineering)
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Publisher excerpt: Martin Spier explains how agentic workflows dramatically increase code change volume at OpenAI. He discusses the hidden systemic performance costs of rapid shipping beyond GPUs, and shares how deploying always-on AI agents automates profiling, regression detection, and continuous optimization to…