Discussion

• @tszzl Roon on x

  further chapter on the @pashmerepat story is i introduced him to the codex team after the cline tweet debacle and good things seem to have happened as their whole team started on codex this week

• @ai_for_success AshutoshShrivastava on x

  Nik Pash was fired by Cline for making racist comments about Indian coders and is now hired by OpenAI, working on the Codex team. OpenAI, you have lost all respect. [image]

• @mhdfaran Farhan on x

  > Nik Pash makes racist anti-India comments > Cline fires him > His team quits in protest > OpenAI immediately hires the whole group Morality is clearly optional at the top. [image]

• @trace_cohen Trace Cohen on x

  I heard about this a few weeks ago - it's a reverse hire and license. The employees got together and made it happen to take care of themselves.

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  @tszzl @pashmerepat You mean his whole team, not the whole company tho, right?

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  Drop the “acqui-”, just “hire”, it's cleaner. [image]

• @kevkubernetes Kevin McLaughlin on x

  News: OpenAI confirms it has hired at least 7 staffers from AI coding startup Cline, says it was not part of an acquisition. The hires could help OpenAI improve Codex to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code. More here: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...

• @trekedge Daniel Steigman on x

  After a long year scaling Cline, I've joined @OpenAI on the codex team. The codex team has some of the brightest minds in the world, and I'm so excited to continue pushing the frontier of agentic intelligence.

• @jxnlco Jason Liu on x

  Did the cline team just join codex OpenAI

• @apples_jimmy @apples_jimmy on x

  Did all of the @cline eng team just join the codex team at OpenAI ? What are they cooking? Imagine the smell. 👩‍🍳

• @1littlecoder @1littlecoder on x

  so, OpenAI Codex team has poached the Cline guys! 👀 [image]

• @altryne Alex Volkov on x

  After Cline CEO threw his employee under the bus, and given in it the internet mob, I saw 3 ex/cline folks join OpenAI today! Truly such a self own that fiasco 🤦‍♂️

• @amir Amir Efrati on x

  OpenAI's raid on @cline talent is quite something [image]