Both OpenAI (through "Profit Participation Units") and Anthropic offer compensation that's primarily based on profitability. Yet OpenAI is run by a non-profit and Anthropic is a PBC. This means that staff incentives are by definition not aligned with the companies' missions.
BUSINESS
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Over-Engineering vs KISS: Premature Complexity in System Design
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The opposite of KISS would be, for example: Assuming that we need to build a system for millions of users, with auto-scaling, automating migration of user data, end-to-end encryption … and starting to solve these problems on day one, before the first MVP of LTM was even built.
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Board governance and ethical responsibility in corporate charters
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Yes that's fair – although if I were a board member I wouldn't go against the company charter in the hope that a court might later decide it was actually OK to do so. In fact I wouldn't join a board where I disagreed with the charter.
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Over-Engineering Small Projects: Recognizing Unnecessary Complexity
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Yes, many things are "it depends." But you can spot the pattern I describe when the project is still small, but the solutions are already overly complicated.
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Mission Requires Funding to Avoid Becoming Hallucination
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A mission, without a way to fund it, is hallucination. @sama enabled the pursuit of the mission. The announcements on dev day would also generate revenue for pursuing the mission.
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Sam’s Ouster: Silicon Valley AI CEO Leadership Profile
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Now that details are emerging about Sam’s ouster I’ll resurface what I sent out last night. Sam’s an anomaly of a CEO in AI: he’s a classic 2010s era Silicon Valley popped-collar startup founder deeply entrenched in the Bay Area tech scene through YC.
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Sam Altman Fired as OpenAI CEO – Potential Major Mistake
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Sam Altman fired as OpenAI CEO
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Sam Altman fired from OpenAI: impact analysis on AI and ChatGPT
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SHOCKED! Sam Altman fired from #OpenAI Why this decision? What will be the impacts on #ArtificialIntelligence, #ChatGPT, #GPT4 and even #GPT5? Who will replace him? We analyze all this in my latest video →
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OpenAI Board Tensions: Crypto Community Targets Helen Toner Over Ilya Sutskever
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Lotsa crypto-turned-AI bros salty about OpenAI's decision to re-focus on their founding mission. I've noticed that they're largely turning their ire on board member Helen Toner. …Rather than on board member Ilya Sutskever, who actually pulled the trigger. How random.
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Company Charter Legal Binding Obligations for Directors
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The charter of the company is not a random article. It's legally binding on the directors of the company.