Leader profile

Thibault Sottiaux

Thibault "Tibo" Sottiaux is the head of ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI, where he leads core product platforms and agentic software engineering tools.

Current role

Role: Engineer
Company: OpenAI
Official link: https://x.com/thsottiaux?lang=en

Recent viewpoints

Fast experimentation should coexist with coherent product quality

Sottiaux says OpenAI tries to preserve a bottom-up culture where people can quickly test and ship ideas while balancing that freedom with simplicity, performance, and overall product coherence.

Thibault Sottiaux Product culture Source at 3:12

Companies must remain willing to disrupt themselves

Sottiaux argues that organizations need conviction, rapid user feedback loops, and a willingness to redirect resources toward promising new ideas even when doing so disrupts established priorities.

Thibault Sottiaux Product culture Source at 4:37

Personal agents should deeply understand and adapt to users

Sottiaux describes the desired personal agent as one that understands a user's goals, daily activities, and surrounding context, reacts when needed, acts proactively, and minimizes the need for users to manage underlying agent mechanics.

Thibault Sottiaux Personal AI agents Source at 7:53

Future agents will need resources beyond personal laptops

Sottiaux argues that computers designed around human workloads will become a constraint for increasingly capable models, which can potentially operate across far more concurrent applications and therefore require greater computational resources.

Thibault Sottiaux AI compute Source at 8:58

AI should adapt to human attention rather than demand multitasking

Sottiaux says AI products should manage information and interruptions around human attention, with sufficiently fast models enabling users to remain in a continuous creative flow rather than manually coordinating many parallel agents.

Thibault Sottiaux Personal AI agents Source at 11:17

Recent interviews

How to Understand the Next Wave of AI Before Everyone Else | Thibault Sottiaux and Matthew Burman

Aug 24, 2026

Major topics

Design IterationLast interview Aug 15, 2026 TypographyLast interview Aug 15, 2026 InternationalizationLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Visual PrototypingLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Logo DesignLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Project PlanningLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Creative CollaborationLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Meaningful DesignLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Accessible ComputingLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Design ConstraintsLast interview Aug 15, 2026