OpenAI Bought Statsig. Seriously.

Right, so OpenAI – those geniuses who keep promising AGI but mostly deliver slightly-less-broken chatbots – decided to just buy a product testing company called Statsig. Statsig does A/B testing and feature flagging, basically making sure their crap doesn’t completely implode when they release it into the wild. Because apparently internal testing wasn’t enough? Shocking.

And of course, with every goddamn acquisition comes a leadership shuffle. Ilya Volkov, Statsig’s CEO, is joining OpenAI to run… something about “growth.” Wonderful. More managers. Just what we needed. They’ve also moved around some other people internally – Kevin Weil is now Chief Product Officer and others are getting new titles. It’s all very corporate and reeks of “we have no idea what we’re doing, let’s reorganize!”

The whole thing smacks of OpenAI realizing they need to actually *validate* their products before unleashing them on the public. Like, maybe if you didn’t rely so heavily on hype and focused more on quality control, you wouldn’t need to buy a company just to make sure things don’t explode. But hey, who am I to question the wisdom of billion-dollar valuations?

Oh, and they say this is about “responsible AI development.” Yeah, right. It’s about preventing PR disasters, let’s be real.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of things exploding, I once had to debug a routing issue caused by a misconfigured BGP table. Turns out some intern decided to “optimize” it without understanding what they were doing. Spent 36 hours straight staring at packet captures. This OpenAI thing? Probably less painful. Probably.

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