OpenAI employee on the emotional rollercoaster of working at a frontier AI lab
simpsoka · x · 2026-09-10
An OpenAI employee describes the whiplash of working at the lab: feeling omnipotent one day, clueless the next, then rushing to ship everything, then living so far in the future they can't remember yesterday — a snapshot of the intense culture at a frontier AI lab.
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