Comment by vermarish
11 days ago
I don't know. I think the younger 20-somethings all have this same kind of dream, but the older people get, the more comfortable they seem hiding behind NDAs at FAANGs or staying in "stealth mode." They really don't owe anyone anything.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the younger 20-somethings.
You don't "hide behind" NDAs. Either you have one or you don't. Whatever your position is on the NDAs in general, you really shouldn't break one you accepted.
> Whatever your position is on the NDAs in general, you really shouldn't break one you accepted.
The recent OpenAI non-disparagement agreement ex-employees were forced to sign was itself covered by a non-disclosure agreement. Which current employees thus naturally had no idea about... until they were leaked to the press. Would it really have been better for these not to have been leaked?
If it's in the territory of ex employees being forced to sign something, I don't count that under NDA anymore - it's just sneaky BS. You can twist anything in some evil scheme - that doesn't mean the original thing itself is bad.
The context here is sharing general technical knowledge, not the openai internal backstabbing.