OpenAI engineer's one-year reflection: extreme agency and ownership across the stack
himanshustwts · x · 2026-09-24
An OpenAI employee published a one-year reflection on doing good work, company culture, and his five biggest surprises from an action-packed year. The sharer's takeaway: you need extremely high agency and ownership to work across the whole stack at OpenAI.
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