What Ed Bayes thinks about agency
Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, where he works on coding agents and leads design for Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ed Bayes has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingHigh-trust, high-agency teams go together: you can only be high agency if you have built trust.
Their wordshigh trust high agency teams and they kind of can't really go without each other. So in order to be high agency and do the things that I describe which is like you know product designers like you know maybe bringing like full features to bear and like feeling empowered that they can do that. You can kind of only do that if you've built trust.
↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 15th of 18 in this recording
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Their wordsI think it's also kind of beholden on design and product frankly to like get up to speed on the latest thinking.
↗Ed Bayes - Designing 6 months into the future at OpenAIyoutube.com 16th of 18 in this recording