These are huge losses. Pachocki led pre-training for GPT-4, and probably GPT-5. Brockman is the major engineer responsible for the efficiency improvements that enabled ChatGPT and GPT-4 to be even remotely cost-effective. That is a piece that is often overlooked, but OpenAI's advantage over the competition in compute efficiency is probably even larger than the model itself.
https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6309033/greg-brockman...
What about he spends 4 hours a week coding cause he’s so good at coding.
Way more impressive.
Being good at something lies in the result and/or appreciation of your work by skilled pairs, which also seem to be there.
Can we get a pllleeeeeeaaaase????
He’s clearly a terrible programmer and/or a terrible chairman and to be honest this news says he’s at least 1 of 2 on the above.
I don’t like nonsense PR stories or myths about people’s extraordinary prowess.
I just respond badly to BS and these statement have obvious BS if you stop for even a second to think about them.
On some level too, it offends me when I see right minded intelligent people in my community lapping it up.
So a couple of things.
Say I were to tell you that he was the President of openAI but he also did 80 hours of janitorial work per week.
Would you say that was a good use of his time?
Would you say that maybe he should be spending his time on being president of the company and not mopping up? You would be right.
Now substitute programming for janitorial work.
Now be a little more critical about things you see online.