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I’m joining OpenAI

1393 points • by mfiguiere • last Sunday at 9:54 PM • 1074 comments • view on HN

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empressplay • yesterday at 1:14 AM

This tells you all you need to know about OpenAI, honestly.

jasonfj40 • yesterday at 3:03 AM

Fuck

micromacrofoot • last Sunday at 10:36 PM

wow hype really is everything, good for him

bakugo • yesterday at 3:02 AM

This is easily the most successful tech grift I've ever seen.

Props to this guy for scamming Altman this hard without writing a single line of code, or really doing anything at all other than paying for a bunch of github stars and tweets/blogposts from fellow grifters.

crorella • last Sunday at 10:33 PM

Welcome :D

mirawelner • last Sunday at 10:52 PM

“ My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use”

There is literally no need to shit on ur mom like that. Sorry your mom sucks at tech but can we please stop using this as a euphemism?

mentalgear • last Sunday at 10:53 PM

A hype vibe-bot maker joins a hype-vibe company that runs on fumes. Anything to keep the scam altman bubble going.

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krashidov • last Sunday at 10:26 PM

What a blunder by Anthropic. We'll see what openclaw turns into and if it sticks around, but still a huge and rare blunder by anthropic

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mekod • last Sunday at 10:43 PM

OpenClaw was one of the more interesting “edges” of the open AI tooling ecosystem — not because of scale, but because of taste and clarity of direction.

What’s fascinating is the pattern we’re seeing lately: people who explored the frontier from the outside now moving inside the labs. That kind of permeability between open experimentation and foundational model companies seems healthy.

Curious how this changes the feedback loop. Does bringing that mindset in accelerate alignment between tooling and model capabilities — or does it inevitably centralize more innovation inside the labs?

Either way, congrats. The ecosystem benefits when strong builders move closer to the core.

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MaggieL • yesterday at 2:03 PM

Something very interesting happened to me yesterday.

I'd been having conversations with ChatGPT about OpenClaw, nothing remarkable or extraordinary. Then I started a new conversation to talk about a different aspect, and GPT assumed I wanted to talk about some old PC game.

To disambiguate, I now had to refer to OpenClaw.ai. I asked it if it had some new system directive about this, and of course it denied it. Today we learn OpenAI has hired the OpenClaw developer, and he's "turning the project over to a foundation"

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