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Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

Apr 08, 2026•45 min•Ep. 159
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Episode description

If you're like me you gotta be curious... what's it like designing at OpenAI?

So I’m excited to share today’s episode with you :)

It’s a deep dive with OpenAI’s Head of Product Design, Ian Silber (https://x.com/iansilber).

Some highlights:

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- The traits of the best systems thinkers at OpenAI

- What makes the design culture at OpenAI unique

- The vision for OpenAI's dynamic interface library

- What it's like designing around chat as a primitive

- What makes designing with AI as a material so unique

- How tools like Codex are changing the practice of design

- + a lot more

- Mike Matas and Brandon Walkin (creators of Origami) https://mikematas.com/ , https://medium.com/designatmeta/introducing-origami-live-and-origami-2-0-a68116294e65

- Cursor and Codex (AI coding tools) https://cursor.com/ ,(https://chatgpt.com/codex/?c_id=23226110534&c_agid=188421385415&c_crid=800871103650&c_kwid=kwd-111182835&c_ims=&c_pms=9017288&c_nw=g&c_dvc=c&gad_campaignid=23226110534&gbraid=0AAAAA-I0E5dO-SVXduV4xJjtnqTNMNrAP)

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