Nilay Patel

And there's the moment where he hires away Andres Karpathy to Tesla, and he goes back to OpenAI and is like, oh, I have an announcement and a confession.

I've hired this guy who is very important and is now a celebrity in the AI world to go work at Tesla, which is a thing that if you care about OpenAI and want it to succeed, you probably don't do.

Well, it's more than that.

I wrote down these texts from Ilya Satskover came up where he says, Elon might spend half a day a week with us.

I imagined how it will be.

And I worry that our work environment can become very stressful.

And since he'll be bankrolling it, it'll be hard to stop it.

Like, you're right.

It is fear and flattery in equal measure.

And there is this sense of like, we have to take his money to do this thing.

But we also have to figure out how to keep him out of it as much as possible because he will ruin it.

Elon Musk wanted this lawsuit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Agreed.

So the other thing, which I think is, frankly, vastly more fun in terms of the things we got to learn, is all the stuff that happened during Sam Altman's firing.

This very brief couple of days where Sam Altman was fired unceremoniously and kind of out of nowhere.

Staged a coup is like a non...

generous but not wrong way to say it.

A lot of people on the team threatened to quit.