Ex-OpenAI engineer's deadpan post on the launch goes viral: 'appropriate awe and reverence'
john__allard · x · 2026-10-07
John Allard, an early OpenAI employee, posted a deadpan take on OpenAI's latest launch: no hype marketing video, no rushing to front-run other labs, no gloating — and "future generations" will see this singularity milestone "was met with appropriate awe and reverence." The irony reads as mockery of the launch's over-the-top framing and is circulating as an AI-circle joke.
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