[biofunsf]

What I’d really like to understand is why the board felt like they had to this as a surprise coup, and not a slower more dignified firing.

If they gave Altman 1 weeks notice and let him save face in the media, what would they have lost? Is there a fear Altman would take all the best engineers on the way out?

[throw555chip]

As someone else commented on this page, it wasn't a coup.

[biofunsf]

This seems a pedantic point. In the “not legal” sense I agree since that seems part of a real coup. But it certainly was a “surprise ousting of the current leadership”, which I mean when I say coup.