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Mark Chen
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From Vibe Coding to Vibe Researching: OpenAI’s Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki
Mark ChenJakub PachockiAnjney MidhaSarah Wang
GPT-5 makes adaptive reasoning and agentic behavior the default, shifting competition toward thinking budgets, latency, reliability, and economically relevant discovery rather than saturated benchmarks.OpenAI’s automated-researcher ambition requires longer planning, persistent memory, and honest recovery from failure, while scarce compute, energy, and robotics capacity remain constraints worth monitoring.