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Logan Kilpatrick is the first Developer Relations hire at OpenAI - the company behind the revolutionary product ChatGPT. He has been responsible for working with the product teams on new launches, creating and maintaining developer documentation, running the developer forum, hackathons, events and managing the ChatGPT plugin store. In this episode, he discusses what his role at OpenAI looks like, how he went from being a Machine Learning engineer at Apple to Developer Relations Advocate at OpenAI and his tips for people looking to transition to a career of developer relations:

• Will developers become obsolete due to ChatGPT?
• Deep-dive into the Dev Rel work at OpenAI
• How Logan uses ChatGPT at work
• Dev Rel or Software Development? How to choose?
• Logan's transition from an ML Engineer to a Dev Rel Advocate
• Doing unpaid volunteer work to get his first break
• Dealing with rejections
• Get an unfair advantage by creating a public verifiable track record
• What's next for Logan?
• Logan's #1 resource? Jono Bacon
• Who he learns from on Twitter
• 1 action item for you - the listener