This might not be bad from the perspective of the remaining employees, it might be that the annoying people are leaving the room.

Or that just the aggressive snakes are left.

I have no idea I’m saying I’ve seen that happen in companies.

In my experience, good ones leave first, followed by those who enjoyed working with them and or ones who are not longer able to get work done.

You need to think about OpenAI specifically - Ilya basically attempted a coup last year and failed, stayed in the company for months afterwards, according to rumours had limited contributions to the breakthroughs in research and was assigned to lead the most wishy-washy project of superalignment.

I’m not seeing “the good ones” leaving in this case.