Ex-OpenAI researcher: leaving a frontier lab was the ultimate reality check
jonkhler · x · 2026-09-29
Former OpenAI employee @RafitJamil says leaving a frontier lab was "the biggest reality check of all time". While inside OpenAI, he believed he was peering into an inevitable future — but a few months after departing, he concludes he had it completely backwards. The post offers no supporting details, yet stands as a rare insider-perspective comment on frontier-lab culture and expectations.
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