David Holtz. Researcher at OpenAI studying organizational adoption of agentic AI tools. Holtz co-authored the large-scale Codex deployment study with Drew Johnston, analyzing how OpenAI's own workforce across engineering, legal, research, and general knowledge roles adopted and used agentic AI from late 2024 through 2026. The research focused on the role of skills, shareable workflow templates, in accelerating diffusion beyond early technical adopters.
Operating themes
- Organizational AI diffusion How agentic tools move through mixed-function organizations and which mechanisms govern the speed and breadth of adoption.
- Skills as a sharing layer How shareable workflow templates reduce the prompt-engineering barrier for non-technical users and drive cross-functional adoption.
- Measuring depth of AI use Tracking task complexity growth and output volume per user rather than headline user counts.