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Brent Traut, an OpenAI engineer who recently joined the Codex team, says he can now fix paper-cut bugs he previously encountered as a user and asks others to report specific issues

Graham Neubig noted heavy agent users often face around 50 open pull requests.

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jason#929@JXNLCOOPBrent TrautBrent Traut@BTRAUT

Now that I've joined the Codex team, it's so freakin' cool being able to fix paper cut bugs that I was running into before the switch. What paper cuts are you running into? I'll see what I can do.

6:19 PM · May 18, 2026 View on X
QUOTE POSTGraham Neubig#99Graham Neubig@GNEUBIG

This is one of my favorite parts of working on a product that I use every day too.

It is *extremely* dangerous if you have the overlapping traits of being a perfectionist and avid agent user though, soon you have 50 open PRs and not nearly enough time to review them all 😅

Brent TrautBrent Traut@btraut

Now that I've joined the Codex team, it's so freakin' cool being able to fix paper cut bugs that I was running into before the switch. What paper cuts are you running into? I'll see what I can do.

1:19 AM · May 19, 2026 · 71.4K Views
2:49 PM · May 20, 2026 · 1.6K Views
REPLYGraham Neubig#99Graham Neubig@GNEUBIG

OK, I lied, I only have 48 open PRs 😀 https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+author%3Aneubig+archived%3Afalse

Graham NeubigGraham Neubig@gneubig

This is one of my favorite parts of working on a product that I use every day too. It is *extremely* dangerous if you have the overlapping traits of being a perfectionist and avid agent user though, soon you have 50 open PRs and not nearly enough time to review them all 😅

2:49 PM · May 20, 2026 · 1.6K Views
2:53 PM · May 20, 2026 · 348 Views