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# “I Asked The AI How Do I Resign” - Ex-Anthropic Researcher On Leaving Anthropic

Valuetainment Short Clips, 9 October 2026, YouTube. 17,508 views as of 12 October 2026.
Kind: Interview.
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GnRvsZKMOk

## Why it is here

Clip from PBD #868: Coxon says his manager told him to ask Claude how to resign; describes AI-written code and automated meetings inside the labs.

## Description (written by Gemini from the video)

**Summary**
This clip from the *PBD Podcast* features host Patrick Bet-David interviewing former AI researcher Jacob Coxon about his career path from competitive mathematics to OpenAI and Anthropic. Coxon compares the executive leadership styles of Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, contrasts company cultures, and describes how internal engineering and administrative workflows shifted to autonomous AI agents before his departure.

**What is shown**
- [00:00] Patrick Bet-David and Jacob Coxon seated in studio discussing Coxon’s background in competitive mathematics and entry into OpenAI at age 23.
- [00:48] On-screen display of the International Mathematical Olympiad Wikipedia page.
- [03:42] On-screen graphic displaying Anthropic leadership profiles for CEO Dario Amodei and President Daniela Amodei.
- [05:01] Google search result page shown for Sam Altman.
- [06:03] Anthropic website co-founders page shown featuring Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, and Chris Olah.
- [07:45] Coxon explaining the shift in daily engineering from writing manual code to overseeing autonomous coding agents.
- [08:04] Coxon detailing his resignation experience, where his manager directed him to ask Claude for the offboarding steps.
- [08:42] Mid-video sponsor advertisement for FLB footwear.

**Claims & numbers**
- The guest says he entered the OpenAI residency at age 23 after competing twice in the International Mathematical Olympiad and winning a silver medal.
- The guest states that OpenAI grew from approximately 300 employees when he joined to roughly 7,000–8,000 people during his tenure.
- The guest notes that Anthropic has seven co-founders and that none of them have left the company.
- The guest claims that whereas three years prior he wrote code entirely by hand, by the time he left, engineers no longer wrote code by hand because AI agents wrote it.
- The guest states that internal operations and offboarding procedures were run so thoroughly through AI that when he asked his manager how to resign, he was told to ask Claude.

**Notable quotes**
- [04:06] "Sam is very vague about the future... Whereas Dario is like, 20% chance this happens, 80% chance this happens."
- [07:54] "No one really writes code by hand anymore, your agents... your agents write the code."
- [08:12] "My manager was like, 'I don't know, ask... ask Claude.' So I asked the AI how do I resign and the AI told me the flow."

**Assessment**
This is an interview excerpt providing firsthand insider perspective on operational and cultural differences between OpenAI and Anthropic. The descriptions of daily workflows, coding agents, and AI-mediated HR procedures reflect the personal testimony and opinions of a former employee rather than an official company demonstration.

_Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-10-12 from the video's audio and frames._

## Related

- 2026-09-08: [Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns, warning labs are "gambling with our lives"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-jacob-coxon-resigns-anthropic/)

## People in it

- [Chris Olah](https://postcutoff.com/person/chris-olah/), Co-founder and interpretability researcher, Anthropic
- [Daniela Amodei](https://postcutoff.com/person/daniela-amodei/), President and co-founder, Anthropic
- [Dario Amodei](https://postcutoff.com/person/dario-amodei/), CEO and co-founder, Anthropic
- [Jack Clark](https://postcutoff.com/person/jack-clark/), Co-founder, Anthropic; author of Import AI
- [Jacob Coxon](https://postcutoff.com/person/jacob-coxon/), Former Anthropic pretraining researcher (resigned Sept 2026)
- [Jared Kaplan](https://postcutoff.com/person/jared-kaplan/), Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic
- [Sam Altman](https://postcutoff.com/person/sam-altman/), CEO, OpenAI
- [Tom Brown](https://postcutoff.com/person/tom-brown/), Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic