Prashanth Rao

not surprising that @OpenAI is firing on all cylinders right now, and it’s an unbelievably interesting story - they launched GPT-5 summer of 2025 and positioned it as a pair programmer. we wrote at the time @every that they completely missed the new agentic coding that was starting to happen inside of Claude Code. they bet on agentic coding in the browser / vms and vibe coding in ChatGPT but it was too early - a small team broke off and began working on a separate Codex model line and product. didn’t have to serve the gigantic customer base of ChatGPT, and by November / December of 2025 with 5.3 it was clear they were starting to make something good and the progress was fast - Codex Desktop app launched in Feb and was just clearly superior. there’s a weird late comer advantage sometimes in AI because you get to skip to what works instead of your product having the scars of new capability improvements being bolted on every 3 months - Codex started getting popular it was clear it was a thing, and needed to get merged back in. Which they did, imo quite well—a super complicated thing that would’ve been very easy to screw up. most companies try to disrupt themselves and fail. OpenAI somehow figured out how to disrupt their main product, and then merge it back in seamlessly. incredible aura

Lance now opens a 65K column table in 17 milliseconds. It used to take 17s. That's 1,032x faster 🚀 Wide tables are no longer a cold start problem. Amazing work by @xuanwo! 👏