> Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage.

I left my job at big tech a few months ago and started using ChatGPT (and now GPT 4) shortly after for personal projects.

100% stand by the author's statement. The ability to iterate and execute on my ideas in a way I've never been able to do before—combined with not having to worry about whether I'm infringing on my previous employer's intellectual property rights clause—feels so incredibly freeing.