Ex-Stripe engineer now at OpenAI: working here reset my definition of hard work
johnohallman · x · 2026-09-06
A former Stripe engineer who joined OpenAI two and a half years ago says being surrounded by such smart, hardworking people completely reset his frame of reference for hard work, calling it a privilege to witness the magic from inside.
The post quotes Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: anyone in AI is working harder than ever — ironic since AI should give us time back — but this is the most fun and empowering epoch in human history: the intelligence revolution.
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