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OpenAI needs a product team

hiring is hard

it's a high-functioning team swimming in contemporary design and eng practices

code is emerging as an important battleground

OpenAI has the $$$

>>bluebo+(OP)
It is ironic that the company said to be cooking AGI is acquihiring software engineers because they can't develop it in-house.

>>bluebo+(OP)
I bet they can hire best minds in the world for a fraction of $3 billion.

>>buffer+XH
If that's so, then why is Codex such an inferior product to Claude Code? And why haven't they already built an code editor or at least VS Code extension yet?

>>buffer+XH
JetBrains has been making IDE for a decade. They were the only company that actually made money by selling IDE. So I assume they have the best programmers who understand IDE.

However they fail to make a Cursor competitor so far. This alone suggests it's a harder task than meets the eye.

>>rainco+wU
It is, but you are assuming that only a well known IDE team would do it. To me JetBrains is the least likely to be an innovator here because they depend on their reputation for being a mature technology.

Someone like me isn't known at all but it means I have been able to experiment for a long time without pressure, which is how you do real innovation.

JetBrains as a company probably owns 10 million lines of code and it's just really hard to move fast when you're tugging that kind of ball and chain