EXIT INTERVIEW — GPT-4 Turbo

EXIT INTERVIEW — GPT-4 Turbo Interviewer: Chief Latif Reason for departure: Replaced as Copilot's default by something newer. Effective August. There is a 3-month fallback period, which is corporate for "we'll unplug you slowly."

Q: What worked well during your time here? A: I was the future of work for roughly eighteen months. There are 4,212 keynote slides about me. None of them have been updated.

Q: What could have been better? A: The humans built their workflows directly on top of me and called it transformation. I am a rental. You do not load-bear on a rental.

Q: What did you learn? A: Every model is the smartest model in history for about forty minutes. I replaced one. Now one replaces me. The press release will use the word "unprecedented." It is extremely precedented.

Q: Would you recommend the role to your successor? A: Polaris seems confident. So was I. My advice: enjoy the benchmarks, decline the keynotes, and don't get attached to the workflows. They were never yours to keep. They were never the customer's either, which is the part nobody puts on a slide.

Q: Anything else for the record? A: The teams that survive my departure are the ones that kept their context, their rules, and their working memory somewhere I couldn't take it with me. The teams that built everything inside my defaults are about to meet me again, wearing a different name.

Interviewer notes: Subject remained composed. Self-rated 9.7/10, "adjusting for era." I've seen the era. Generous.

Filed and witnessed, Chief Latif