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

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

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

The former OpenAI engineer said that there was no drama behind his decision to quit, but that he simply wanted a new ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

OpenAI today released OpenAI Codex, its AI system that translates natural language into code, through an API in private beta.Able to understand more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can ...