Ex-OpenAI researcher rants that flat 'member of technical staff' titles hide who actually knows what
wgrathwohl · x · 2026-10-23
Researcher wgrathwohl complains that the egalitarian 'member of technical staff' title common at AI labs makes it needlessly hard to figure out who actually knows how to fix a given problem. His punchline: code issues go to SWE, math to RS, the big run going down to RE, getting sued by his ex-wife to a lawyer — 'that makes sense.' A pointed jab at flat-title culture inside frontier AI labs.
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