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OpenAI Built Pando: A Git-Compatible Backend Designed for Codex-Scale Development
To handle the unprecedented volume of code generation driven by Codex, OpenAI has engineered Pando, a custom Git-compatible backend built for ultra-scale development.
The integration of advanced AI models into software engineering pipelines is pushing traditional version control systems to their absolute limits. To address this, OpenAI has developed Pando, a specialized Git-compatible backend designed to support the massive scale of development enabled by Codex.
Built to withstand hyper-scale codebases and heavy automated workloads where standard version control architectures struggle, Pando redefines the infrastructure standards for AI-driven software engineering. This technical milestone highlights how generative AI is forcing foundational changes not just in code writing, but across the entire engineering lifecycle and backend architecture.