Calvin French-Owen spent a little over a year on OpenAI's technical team. In a blog post he offers an insider's take on ...

With a newborn at home, a former top engineer details the grueling, 7-week sprint that pushed a small team to its absolute ...

A former top engineer reveals an organization that runs on secrets, Slack messages, and social media buzz, where world ...

A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding ...

Calvin French-Owen, who spent a year at OpenAI working on Codex until leaving in June, didn't speak ill of his former ...

He stated that OpenAI took only seven weeks to build Codex from start to finish. “I returned early from my paternity leave to ...

Calvin French-Owen worked for OpenAI between May 2024 and June 2025 as a technical staff member. He talked about his time at ...

Owen, an engineer working on OpenAI's coding agent Codex, OpenAI has grown quickly, and so it’s natural for aspects like ...

A former OpenAI engineer who worked on the company's most promising products recently shared an intriguing account of what it’s like to work at the $300 billion AI firm, following his resignation.

Former OpenAI engineer shares rare insights about company culture, revealing the fast-paced work environment, secretive ...

In the end, French-Owen's message is both a reality check and a cautionary tale. While OpenAI remains a beacon for those ...

ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot suffered a brief outage that started at around 6 AM on July 16. The outage also impacted ...