OpenAI GPT 5.5 Event

Last week I flew from Seattle to San Francisco for the OpenAI GPT-5.5 Event and had a great experience meeting people working across AI infrastructure, research, developer tooling, and startups. One of the best parts of the event was getting the chance to talk directly with Members of Technical Staff and engineers about the technical challenges behind building and deploying large-scale AI systems. A lot of the conversations were very practical. People discussed reliability, inference, agents,...