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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
OpenAI essays tout an 'RSI day' and agentic engineering adoption, with AI spend per researcher accelerating sharply after late-July internal model access.
Two OpenAI pieces, including Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki's essay 'An Alien Mind', describe 'RSI day' (Recursive Self-Improvement) and the lab's AGI framing. The post details how OpenAI's research team increasingly relies on coding agents, with agentic engineering scaling through 2026. A chart shows AI spend per researcher accelerating sharply in late July, which Willison attributes to internal employees gaining access to a new model.
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