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Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

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Dive Club 🤿
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Apr 8, 2026
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Summary

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: **** - 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)