Steven Heidel

@stevenheidel.com

API @OpenAI | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

if you studied secret police in history class - who'd beat citizens and drag them off in unmarked vehicles - and thought, "I'd obviously have spoken up if I had been around back then" well, now's your chance

5 years on from January 6th it's worth reflecting on just how much contempt Donald Trump has for us, the American people. he’s pardoned criminals who've defrauded us, used our tax money to enrich himself and his friends, and continues to attack our democratic rights

setting "prompt_cache_retention" to "24h" in the Responses API can lead to significant cost and latency improvements in gpt-5.1, since prompts will be cached much longer than the normal 5-10 minutes

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I’m hiring for the API Frontiers team at OpenAI! We take the latest breakthroughs from research and turn them into developer products - designing APIs that feel natural, powerful, and scale to billions of users.

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gpt-5.1 is now available in ChatGPT! smarter, faster, and with more options to customize its personality - because sometimes you don't need to be told that every question is a great question

it’s difficult to overstate how important Codex has been to our team’s ability to ship new products. for example: the drag and drop agent builder we launched today was built end to end in under 6 weeks, thanks to Codex writing 80% of the PRs

i was privileged to become american thanks to the h-1b visa. the program has its flaws, but adding a $100k "bribe" (which can be arbitrarily waived if you please the right people) is not the answer