Three weeks ago, an engineer named Calvin French Owen, who worked on Open’s most promising new products, resigned from the company.
She just published a Interesting Blog Post How was it to work there for a year, including a sleep sprint to build a codex. It is an ophani’s new coding agent that counteracts tools such as cursor and interstropic cloud codes.
The French Owen said he did not leave for any “drama”, but because he wants to return as the founder of a startup. He was a co -founder of the customer data startup class, bought by Tilio in 2020 for $ 3.2 billion.
What he revealed about the open culture will not surprise anyone, but other observations fight some misunderstandings about the company. (It cannot be commented immediately.)
Fast growth: He wrote that the year the Openi was there, it increased by 1,000 to 3,000 people.
The LLM model maker certainly has the reasons to get such services. It is the fastest growing consumer products ever, and its competitors are also growing rapidly. In March, he said Chat GPT had more than 500 million activities Customers and climbing quickly.
Chaos: French Owen wrote, “When you measure it faster, everything breaks: How to communicate as a company, reporting structures, how to send the product, how to manage and manage people, the process of serving, etc.”
Like a small start, the people there still have the option to follow their ideas with little red tape. But that also means that many teams are copying efforts. He presented for example, “I should look at half a dozen libraries for things like a row management or agent loop.
Even in coding skills, also different from experienced Google engineers who write codes that can handle a billion users, new mint PhDs do not. This means with flexible Azigar’s tongue, which means that the central code storage, alias “back and monethy”, “is a slight dumping ground,” he described.
Things are often broken or it may take longer to run. But the top engineering top managers are aware of this and are working on improvement.
“Soul Launching”: Open is not yet known that it is a huge company, just running on the slack. He observed that it feels like a fast and brake Thing Meta in the early years of Facebook. The company is also full of rent from Meta.
The French Owen told how his senior team had eight engineers, four researchers, two designers, two -go market staff and a product manager made a codax in just seven weeks and launched, almost no no sleep.
But it was magic. Just turning it on, they got users. “I have never seen a product so quickly promoted by just appearing in the left -handed sidebar, but it is the power of the chatteg.”
Secret Fish Bubble: Chat GPT is a highly scrutinized company. Because of this, the people were a culture of privacy in an attempt to overcome leakage. At the same time, the company looks at X. If a post goes viral there, the open will see it and possibly respond. He wrote, “A friend of mine joking,” This company runs on Twitter Webs. ‘
The greatest misunderstanding: The French Owen indicated that the biggest misconception about the open is that there is no concern about safety as it should. Certainly many AIEsfighting people, including former Open AI employees, have criticized the process.
He wrote, although the Domsir is concerned about the ideological dangers of humanity, but more focus is being focused on internal security, such as “hate speech, abuse, manipulation of political prejudice, develop bio -weapons, harm himself, quick injections”. He wrote that the open -time long -term potential impact was not ignoring. Researchers are looking at them, and it is known that millions of people are using their LLM for everything from medical advice to therapy today.
Governments are watching. Competition is watching (and the rival is watching in return). “The stake feels a lot.”