OpenAI's Will Depue says most of his tweets are pessimistic, peer pushes back on grad student doom
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-11-11
Responding to @niloofarmire, OpenAI's Will Depue clarified he wasn't cheering — most of his tweets are pessimistic. niloofarmire, who says she daily talks to worried undergrads and PhD students, pushed a brighter picture: the pie is getting bigger and there are still many cool problems to be curious about.
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