Summation with Auren Hoffman OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji: measuring the greatest technology of our time
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Jul 28, 2026 
Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist at OpenAI and former White House CHIPS coordinator, discusses how AI reshapes growth, jobs, and firms. He explains how people actually use ChatGPT and the shift from chatbots to agentic AI. He highlights adoption as the next big leap, how AI shows up (or not) in GDP, and surprising societal effects like a possible population increase.
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Tenfold Rise In Delegating A Full Workday To Agents
- Consumer delegation to Codex for a full workday grew roughly 10x from January to May 2026.
- Ronnie documents a rapid surge in people literally handing an eight-hour workflow to agentic tools.
I Gave Codex 16 Hours And Came Back To Work Done
- Auren ran Codex for 16 hours while traveling and returned to substantial completed work.
- He gave an open-ended 16‑hour task and found Codex accomplished much of the brief with some gaps.
Agents Create Parallelism And Turn Everyone Into A Manager
- Agentic AI enables parallelism and routinization, changing managerial roles and workflows.
- Ronnie says we become managers of humans and agents, using parallel agents and repeatable skills to transform tasks.