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OpenAI techie’s big career announcement gets a response only a desi mom could give
An Indian-origin, San Francisco-based techie received the most 'desi mom' response after sharing a proud career milestone with her mother.
An Indian-origin, San Francisco-based techie received the most 'desi mom' response after sharing a proud career milestone with her mother. Anshita Saini, a ChatGPT growth engineer at OpenAI – the world’s hottest startup – was understandably excited when a feature she developed made it to a leading news publication.
Every desi mom ever
When Anshita Saini texted her mother to tell her about the career achievement, her mom was happy for her - but she did have more pressing concerns, like whether her daughter was eating well or not.
“This feature I built made it onto techcrunch,” the OpenAI engineer told her mother over a text message, sharing a link to a TechCrunch piece ChatGPT’s newest feature that lets users assign traits to the AI chatbot like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’.
Anshita’s mother had a response that is currently going viral online.
“Nice! Great! Inspirational,” she wrote, before asking her daughter: “Did you have nuts and fruits today though?”
The OpenAI employee shared a screenshot of the exchange on X with the caption, “Cannot catch a break.”
Her post is going steadily viral online, having racked up more than 1 lakh views in a matter of hours.
“Indian moms for the win,” wrote one person in the comments section. “Haha, so relatable,” another said.
“Huge congrats on integrating your feature into TechCrunch! That’s a massive achievement, and it's clear your hard work paid off. Your mom's reaction is priceless - only an Indian mom could seamlessly shift from tech achievements to health checks,” a user commented.
Anshita is not alone in being a high-achieving desi kid who can somehow never seem to satisfy their Indian parents - she is in good company with the likes of Sundar Pichai. That’s right. Even becoming the CEO of Google is sometimes not good enough for Indian parents - last year, when Sundar Pichai was awarded an honorary doctorate, he said his parents had always hoped he would go on to do a PhD. “I think an honorary one still counts,” the CEO of Google wrote on Instagram.
