Former senior engineer pens what it was like to work at OpenAI

A senior engineer at OpenAI who recently resigned after his year-long stint at OpenAI wrote a long-winding blog post, reflecting on his experience at the ChatGPT maker, acknowledging its fast growth and internal chaos in the past year.

Calvin French-Owen was an engineer working on OpenAI’s coding agent Codex. There was no drama in his exit, he stated, clarifying that he wanted to return to startup founding. He has impressive credentials as a founder, having cofounded Segment, a customer data platform that was acquired by Twilio in 2020 for $3.2…