Things I learned at OpenAI - by Karina Nguyen - sémaphore
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With deep gratitude to the collaborators, mentors, and friends who shaped how I think about the world
Things I learned at OpenAI With deep gratitude to the collaborators, mentors, and friends who shaped how I think about the world. Karina Nguyen Mar 28, 2026 226 6 36 Share My first day at Anthropic started in this NYC apartment in 2022 When I wrote a similar post about Anthropic around two years ago, Claude Code didn’t exist and AI’s coding skills were far more limited. The world was about to experience models that could finally think deeply to solve hard things that were previously out of reach. I joined OpenAI precisely because I wanted to contribute to the paradigm shift as it happened. Muc
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