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 ...

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

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 OpenAI employee reveals the demanding reality behind the company's innovative facade. Twelve-hour days, intense ...

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

OpenAI is facing massive outages worldwide. Many users have complained about being unable to access chatbots like Sora, ...

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

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

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

The outage affected not just ChatGPT but also OpenAI’s GPT API, Sora, and Codex, services widely used by developers, ...

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

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