I've a penny that says the good ol' MSFT "embrace extend extinguish" is back in full swing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Literally people thought they were saints because of VSCode FFS.
Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
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Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Greg Brockman works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time coding. Former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at OpenAI." https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309033/greg-brockman...
I am either skeptical or envious of such claims. Someone coding so much would quickly be launched into meetings to communicate one's results and to coordinate with others. It would be my life's dream to spend 80 hours per week coding without having to communicate with others... but no one is an island...
I can imagine this type of person to abide to their normal obligations during business hours, and code full time the rest of their wake-up time.
In my company, 80% coding for a senior SWE is rare. But if they deliver, management will give them some slack on the other evaluation axis. I have colleagues who work almost by themselves on new high impact projects. This has many benefits. No need to argue about designs, code reviews (people just approve blindly their code). The downside is that you need to deliver.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
80h a week doing stuff does not prove your level at it, it proves your work capacity. Being good at something lies in the result and/or appreciation of your work by skilled pairs, which also seem to be there.
So why even claim he did 80 hours a week coding, while also being the chairman of the board? Can we get a pllleeeeeeaaaase???? He’s clearly a terrible programmer and/or a terrible chairman and to be honest this news says he’s at least 1 of 2 on the above.
Realistically the odds of gdb being a terrible programmer are very very slim. He has been in the field for at least a decade, published papers, given talks, was the CTO of stripe ( a company generally respected for having sick technical infrastructure). If he works an inordinate amount, then it's probably cause he loves it. I would guess he is much more likely to be world class than terrible
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#274The other cofounder also quit
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#275This is escalating rather quickly. It is an incredibly irresponsible move by the OpenAI board. Hypergrowing company, and now they managed to shake up their user's trust in leadership stability. This has Adam's (D'Angelo) fingerprints all over it (for context, he did overthrow his co-founder, and Quora has been struggling ever since). This guy shouldn't sit on any board ever again. I predict the board will be fired, a…
Who fires the board at a 501.3c?
They resign under public pressure, I guess?
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Greg Brockman works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time coding. Former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at OpenAI." https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309033/greg-brockman...
This is like a supervillain origin story, Greg and Sam are 100 % going to start something new now, even if it's just out of spite with how much both seem to have liked their work at OpenAI
ALDI vs. LIDL
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
Greg Brockman hasn't quit OpenAI. He quit the board[1]. As a part of this transition, Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO. [1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
he tweeted he's leaving the company a few hours after the press release
Interesting. Thanks.
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#278Makes me wonder whether to keep building upon OpenAI? Given that they have an API and it takes effort to build on that vs. something else. I am small fry but maybe other people are wondering the same? Can they give reassurances about their products going into the future?
Indeed. It was a big enough battle to convince execs that building on top of OpenAI was ok. Now that conversation is pretty much impossible. You have the Microsoft offering, but to most muggles that just looks like them reselling OpenAI.
The board of OpenAI should have been replaced by adults a long time ago.
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#279Ilya’s job won’t survive this power play…….
Satya has been humiliated and will be furious.
Re: Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
#280This is escalating rather quickly. It is an incredibly irresponsible move by the OpenAI board. Hypergrowing company, and now they managed to shake up their user's trust in leadership stability. This has Adam's (D'Angelo) fingerprints all over it (for context, he did overthrow his co-founder, and Quora has been struggling ever since). This guy shouldn't sit on any board ever again. I predict the board will be fired, a…
At its core this isn't a company though, and that's perhaps what was at issue.