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The Origins of 'Member of the Technical Staff' at OpenAI - Former Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew
Sequoia Capital· 2025-06-17 19:22
Why is it called member of the technical staff. That's a great question. For a long time, this was true even before I joined OpenAI, by the way.I believe this was Greg Brockman's uh idea. We really wanted there not to be a distinction between engineers and researchers. If you look at a classic lab, a place like Google Brain for example, where a lot of the people who started OpenAI came from at the time and maybe still today, there was a big differentiation between whether you had a PhD and you were a resear ...
AI Powered Software Development: Rising Demand and Changing Dynamics w/ OpenAI's Codex Team
Sequoia Capital· 2025-06-12 19:09
Do you think the number of professional software developers goes up or down over time. This is just my opinion, but I think it goes way up. In my opinion, the the easier it is to write software, then the more software we can have.I bet you if you pull up your phone, most of the apps on it are apps that are built by large teams for millions of users. And there's very few apps that are built like just for us and the specific thing that we need. And so I think as it becomes more and more practical to build lik ...
OpenAI Codex Team: From Coding Autocomplete to Asynchronous Autonomous Agents
Sequoia Capital· 2025-06-10 09:00
In my opinion, the the easier it is to write software, then the more software we can have. Right now, if we think of like I bet you if we look pull up our phones, well, you folks are investors. But if you're not an investor, I bet you if you pull up your phone, most of the apps on it are apps that are built by large teams for millions of users.And there's very few apps that are built like just for us and the specific thing that we need. Um, and so I think as it becomes more and more practical to build like ...