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OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer

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OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before OpenAI, he was at Artifact, the AI-powered news app built by the founders of Instagram. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Instagram, where he worked on products including Reels. Ian is one of the most consequential designers working in AI today, and he takes us inside how OpenAI designs ChatGPT, Codex, and the future of how we will interact with AI…

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a month ago · 125 likes · Lenny Rachitsky

Ideas are the new bottleneck. @akshaynathan_, Core Product Engineering, @OpenAI, argues that once anyone can build, the constraint moves.

Build Got Cheap. Judgment Did Not.

AI Product Managers, if you want to keep your job, please understand: The one skill that matters more than ever is judgement. Taste. AI sense.

We’re in the middle of the second renaissance where proof of work replaces the resume, an audience replaces the employer, and taste replaces credentials.

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Stuff that inspired this week’s comic

• Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession (TechCrunch)

• r/ProductManagement - My PM role seems to be quite... threatened. My company has been exploring Forward Deployed Engineers… (Reddit)

• I was asked recently what are the top reasons AI stalls inside companies (X@clairevo)

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