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OpenAI says human attention is the bottleneck, so it built a system to let agents manage themselves

· May 4, 2026
OpenAI says human attention is the bottleneck, so it built a system to let agents manage themselves

OpenAI’s new Symphony spec flips the AI coding workflow on its head: instead of developers babysitting multiple Codex sessions, agents pull their own tickets straight from Linear and run until the job is done.
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