Episode 192 · Sep 23, 2026 · 28 min
Blaine Billingsley: OpenAI designer on the collaboration problem AI hasn't solved yet
Blaine Billingsley is a staff designer at OpenAI, and his path there was anything but a straight line. He studied music composition and comparative religion, played guitar in Texas for a living (he remembers checking his bank account, seeing seven dollars…
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