Calvin French-Owen spent a little over a year on OpenAI's technical team. In a blog post he offers an insider's take on ...

With a newborn at home, a former top engineer details the grueling, 7-week sprint that pushed a small team to its absolute ...

Calvin French-Owen, who spent a year at OpenAI working on Codex until leaving in June, didn't speak ill of his former ...

A former top engineer reveals an organization that runs on secrets, Slack messages, and social media buzz, where world ...

He stated that OpenAI took only seven weeks to build Codex from start to finish. “I returned early from my paternity leave to ...

Owen, a software engineer who worked at OpenAI for a year, recently left the company and shared his experience in a detailed ...

A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding ...

Owen, an engineer working on OpenAI's coding agent Codex, OpenAI has grown quickly, and so it’s natural for aspects like ...

ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot suffered a brief outage that started at around 6 AM on July 16. The outage also impacted ...

Calvin French-Owen worked for OpenAI between May 2024 and June 2025 as a technical staff member. He talked about his time at ...

In the end, French-Owen's message is both a reality check and a cautionary tale. While OpenAI remains a beacon for those ...

The final product embraced an asynchronous model where users assign coding tasks and Codex returns with pull requests (PRs), ...