They lied to us about AI
In a Nutshell
OpenAI is in chaos—hiring a Facebook manager for a "code red" on project overload, shipping distractions like Sora and a browser while losing to focused Anthropic in coding and enterprise. AI like LLMs boosts code volume by 41% but slows senior developers 19% due to trash output and review burdens, failing to replace jobs. AGI hype sells fear of imaginary superintelligence, while real tools can't handle proprietary work or learn on the job.
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In February 2026, an engineer at OpenAI (makers of ChatGPT) faces a mess: strategy in disarray, projects scattered, losing market share to Anthropic in coding and enterprise. Instead of building an AI agent or training a new model, they Google "good manager" and hire Fiji Simo from Facebook.
Last week, Fiji Simo declares a code red to the entire OpenAI company for having too many projects. Code red implies something extreme like AI becoming sentient and asking for equity, but it's just project overload. OpenAI's pitch is AI makes one person as productive as 10, yet they can't manage one company. They solve it with meetings, a lady with PowerPoint, and bad news instead of using their own AI tool.
I have never been more bullish on middle management in my entire life.
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, has been on a product rampage: shipped Sora (TikTok-like app for bot videos to share with humans), Atlas (web browser that MIT Technology Review called incomprehensible), bolted shopping on ChatGPT (hallucinating spending advice). Joked about launching an airline. He's distracted from preventing human extinction by building fake news video feeds.
Sora team crammed into research department, like putting marketing under legal (ads sound like cease-and-desist letters).
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