No matter how exactly this all shakes out, I am convinced that quote from Sutskever is going to be a legendary summary of the saga: > Ego is the enemy of growth twitter.com/ilyasut/status/170775257607… The real mystery that we're all trying to solve in realtime is: who was the biggest ego here? Like a good game of Clue, everyone is still a suspect...

Edit: I called it twitter.com/karaswisher/status/17256820… nothing to do with dishonesty. That’s just the official reason. ———- I haven’t heard anyone commenting about this, but the two main figures here-consider: This MUST come down to a disagreement between Altman and Sutskever. Also interesting that Sutskever tweeted a month and a half ago twitter.com/ilyasut/status/170775257607… The press release about candid talk with the board… It’s probably just cover up for some deep seated philosophical disagreement. They found a reason to fire him that not necessarily reflects why they are firing him. He and Ilya no longer saw eye to eye and it reached its fever pitch with gpt 4 turbo. Ultimately, it’s been surmised that Sutskever had all the leverage because of his technical ability. Sam being the consummate businessperson, they probably got in some final disagreement and Sutskever reached his tipping point and decided to use said leverage. I’ve been in tech too long and have seen this play out. Don’t piss off an irreplaceable engineer or they’ll fire you. not taking any sides here. PS most engineers, like myself, are replaceable. Ilya is probably not.

>twitter.com/ilyasut/status/170775257607… Dang! He left @elonmusk on read. Now that's some ego at play.

I mean Ilya said it himself in a roundabout way twitter.com/ilyasut/status/170775257607…

> - Ilya may have been partially motivated by ego Interesting comment, given this: twitter.com/ilyasut/status/170775257607…