OpenAI's Chief People Officer KC says junior and senior titles no longer fit AI-era work
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OpenAI Chief People Officer KC says the words junior and senior lack meaning as models advance, because experience relevant to a given context fades quickly.
Tomasz Tunguz reports KC's remarks from Office Hours.
KC describes modern work as a model "brain" inside a harness such as Codex or Claude Code, with people increasingly managing agents. KC says emotional intelligence now separates people.
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AIAt Office Hours, OpenAI Chief People Officer KC said the words junior and senior lack meaning as models advance, because experience relevant to a given context fades quickly. KC described modern work as a model "brain" inside a harness like Codex or Claude Code, with people increasingly managing agents, and said emotional intelligence now separates people.
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