How OpenAI ships so quickly

We do quarterly roadmapping. We laid out sort of a year long strategy. I don't for a second believe that what we write down in these documents is what we're going to actually ship three months from now, let alone six or nine. But that's okay. There's an Eisenhower quote, plans are useless. Planning is helpful, which I totally subscribe to, especially in this world. If you think about quarterly roadmapping, for example, it's really valuable to have a moment where you stop and go, okay, what did we do? What worked? What went well? What didn't go well? What did we learn? And now what do we think we're going to do next? And by the way, everybody has some dependencies. And so you want to have a second to kind of check your dependencies, make sure you're good to go, and then start executing. We try and keep that really lightweight because it's not going to be right. We're going to throw it out halfway because we will have learned new things. So the moment of planning is helpful, even if it's only partially right.