From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)

About this episode

Max Stoiber discusses his work at OpenAI and the evolution of various open source projects.

This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, how Spectrum became part of GitHub and eventually helped shape GitHub Discussions, the founder growth that came from building Stellate, the GraphQL cache that turned into a dual acquisition by Shopify and The Guild, and why ChatGPT apps feel like a new surface for software.

People in this episode

Guest: Max Stoiber

Topics covered

• open source
• software development
• ChatGPT
• GitHub Discussions
• GraphQL
• acquisitions

Keywords

• open source
• ChatGPT
• GitHub
• Stellate
• GraphQL
• acquisition
• software development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, GitHub, Shopify, The Guild

Products: ChatGPT, react-boilerplate, styled-components, Spectrum, Stellate, GraphQL

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