--- title: The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos &... description: OpenAI engineers Alexander Embiricos, Romain Huet, and Peter Steinberger address 7,000 AI engineers at a conference, arguing that AI is not replacing engineers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-golden-age-of-ai-engineering-alexander-embiricos-romain-huet-peter-steinberger-openai-npsvzzk8o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI engineers Alexander Embiricos, Romain Huet, and Peter Steinberger address 7,000 AI engineers at a conference, arguing that AI is not replacing engineers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-golden-age-of-ai-engineering-alexander-embiricos-romain-huet-peter-steinberger-openai-npsvzzk8o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NpSVzzK8O.png og:image:alt: The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 25 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI engineers Alexander Embiricos, Romain Huet, and Peter Steinberger address 7,000 AI engineers at a conference, arguing that AI is not replacing engineers but empowering them. They cover the rapid acceleration of model releases (now every ~6 weeks), the evolution of AI coding tools from simple completion to autonomous agents, and OpenAI's open-stack approach to Codex — including open-source harness, app server, and extensible plugins. Peter Steinberger shares his personal journey from juggling 10 terminal windows to managing a hierarchy of long-running agents, describing how persistent context, delegation, and triggers form the core agent loop. The key bottleneck has shifted from tokens to compute to human attention, and the next engineering challenge is designing better agent loops and orchestration systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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