{"id":947156,"date":"2025-07-17T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947156"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T01:24:53","slug":"former-senior-engineer-pens-what-it-was-like-to-work-at-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/17\/former-senior-engineer-pens-what-it-was-like-to-work-at-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Former senior engineer pens what it was like to work at OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior engineer at OpenAI who recently resigned after his year-long stint at OpenAI wrote a long-winding blog post, reflecting on his experience at the ChatGPT maker, acknowledging its fast growth and internal chaos in the past year. <\/p>\n<p>Calvin French-Owen was an engineer working on OpenAI&#8217;s coding agent Codex. There was no drama in his exit, he stated, clarifying that he wanted to return to startup founding. He has impressive credentials as a founder, having cofounded Segment, a customer data platform that was acquired by Twilio in 2020 for $3.2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior engineer at OpenAI who recently resigned after his year-long stint at OpenAI wrote a long-winding blog post, reflecting on his experience at the ChatGPT maker, acknowledging its fast growth and internal chaos in the past year. Calvin French-Owen was an engineer working on OpenAI&#8217;s coding agent Codex. There was no drama in his exit, he stated, clarifying that he wanted to return to startup founding. He has impressive credentials as a founder, having cofounded Segment, a customer data platform that was acquired by Twilio in 2020 for $3.2 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}