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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Did this guy just exit the first one man billion-dollar startup for... less than a billion?

The fact that 1 billion is the threshold you chose to highlight shows the ridiculousness of this industry. Openclaw is an amazing piece of hard work and novel software engineering, but I can't imagine OpenAI/anthropic/google not being able to compete with it for 1/20th that number (with solid hiring of course).

then explain why google paid 33 billion for a 5 year old israeli cybersecurity startup

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Memory. I have built up so many scripts and crons and integrated little programs and memories with open claw it would be difficult to migrate to some other system. System of record and all.

How hard do you think it would be for ai to generate all those for some alternative?

AI didn't do the work, I did. Building up context is the part we actually have to put work into. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but boy would it be annoying to have to constantly reach a new assistant about your whole life.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness.

My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing.

OpenAI must be laughing their heads off.

Beads and blankets.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness. My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing. OpenAI must be laughing their heads off. Beads and blankets.

He's an experienced founder (psPdfKit)!

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

#437

OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness. My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing. OpenAI must be laughing their heads off. Beads and blankets.

Didn’t he make this in a month or two? That’s a great ROI

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

#438

OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness. My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing. OpenAI must be laughing their heads off. Beads and blankets.

What crown jewels? Isn't openclaw, errr "open" source?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing. 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worrie…

> 2. Any pretense for AI Safety concerns that had been coming from OpenAI really fall flat with this move.

And Peter, creating what is very similar to giant scam/malware as a service and then just leaving it without taking responsibility or bringing it to safety.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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post #336

There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing. 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worrie…

I think this comment misses that OpenAI hired the guy, not the project.

"This guy was able to vibe code a major thing" is exactly the reason they hired him. Like it or not, so-called vibe coding is the new norm for productive software development and probably what got their attention is that this guy is more or less in the top tier of vibe coders. And laser focused on helpful agents.

The open source project, which will supposedly remain open source and able to be "easily done" by anyone else in any case, isn't the play here. The whole premise of the comment about "squashing" open source is misplaced and logically inconsistent. Per its own logic, anyone can pick up this project and continue to vibe out on it. If it falls into obscurity it's precisely because the guy doing the vibe coding was doing something personally unique.

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