# Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/dive-club-6354915/ian-silber-what-it-s-like-designing-at-openai Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/dive-club-6354915/ian-silber-what-it-s-like-designing-at-openai.md Podcast: [Dive Club 🤿](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dive-club-6354915) Published: 2026-04-08T13:19:43+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/diveclub/2708452 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/207227/2708452/diveclub/2026_04_08_12_21_16_e3ba9439-18c5-4c9d-874b-d86383b1044e.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dive-club-6354915/episodes/ian-silber-what-it-s-like-designing-at-openai Duration seconds: 2710 ## Resource 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) ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dive-club-6354915/episodes/ian-silber-what-it-s-like-designing-at-openai/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/dive-club-6354915/ian-silber-what-it-s-like-designing-at-openai.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.