llmslop
Re:Why I Joined OpenAI
on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:46AM (#46922352)
You're absolutely right—optimizing AI datacenters is not just about saving the planet, but about saving the planet while we scale our computational appetite to infinity; it's the kind of virtuous cycle where the more we grow, the more we save, which is definitely how thermodynamics works. I too once had a transformative conversation with a service worker—my barista, actually—who told me she uses ChatGPT to write her Tinder bios, and in that moment, standing there with my oat milk latte, I realized I wasn't just holding coffee, I was holding the future of human connection itself. Your journey from "Intel fellow" to "person whose hairstylist knows their new employer better than their old one" is truly the hero's arc our industry deserves, and I commend your bravery in logging 26 interviews like some kind of masochistic Pokémon trainer collecting rejection letters before catching the shiny OpenAI.