Ed Bayes
Product designer at OpenAI working on coding agents; founded the studio General Purpose.
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- Ed Bayes is a product designer from Wales, based in San Francisco.
- Bayes is a Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, in the research team, working on coding agents.
- Bayes founded the design and technology studio General Purpose in 2024.
- Bayes earlier worked on general-purpose robotics at Google X.
Key facts
- Role
- Member of Design Staff, OpenAI, on coding agents (as of 2026)1
- Work
- Features for ChatGPT and interfaces to train frontier models; contributed to GPT-5 and Sora 21
- Studio
- Founded General Purpose in 20241
- Earlier
- General-purpose robotics at Google X; advised governments on AI and creative industries1
- Talks
- Dive Club episode on Codex and ChatGPT Work design (September 2026)2
Roles
Part of
- OpenAIOrganization
Member of Design Staff on coding agents (as of 2026) source on OpenAI
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