August 16, 2026

I was in OpenAI’s first intern cohort. Here’s what it taught me about becoming an AI-native engineer

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TL;DR: AI is making it easier than ever to build software that looks impressive in a demo. But after working in OpenAI’s first intern cohort, I learned that the real challenge is not just speed. It is judgment: knowing what to trust, what to test, an...