Ryan Lopopolo

Engineer and product builder at OpenAI Frontier focused on deploying agents safely at enterprise scale. Previously worked at firms including Snowflake, Brex, Stripe, and Citadel, and is known here for advancing 'harness engineering' and the Symphony multi-agent system.

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Apr 7, 2026 • 1h 13min

Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code, 0% human review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI Frontier & Symphony

Ryan Lopopolo, an OpenAI engineer building enterprise-scale agent systems, talks about harness engineering, running a 1M+ LOC codebase with no human-written or reviewed code, and spending billions of tokens a day. They get into Symphony, multi-agent orchestration, one-minute build loops, agent-led code review, and why teams should optimize for agent legibility over human coding habits.

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