The Product Experience

How OpenAI moves fast and decides what to build — Blaine Billingsley (Member of Technical Design Staff, OpenAI)

August 12, 2026·55 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Blaine Billingsley is a Member of Technical Design Staff at OpenAI whose path into the field ran through music composition, spare-change website work at college, and a decade across Gmail, Airbnb, YouTube and Slack. At OpenAI he was hired to work on Presence, then redirected to solve a more immediate problem: making ChatGPT genuinely useful as a daily tool for designers. Working with a single engineer, he built the ChatGPT product design plugin — a bridge between the raw power of Codex and th...

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