Sam lost the plot for me. He took too many interviews which led me to not trust him. Last straw came with him standing by Anthropic one day then throwing them under the bus the next. He showed little awareness on why that is problematic.
That's why I changed as well. I got really irritated how Altman tried to get the social credit by having principles, only to change them the moment it was convenient.
> On podcasts his attitude is basically “oh yeah all of you are basically fucked our products will take everyone’s jobs in a couple years.”
I also appreciate his honesty, and don't really understand why the others don't emulate it because there's no cost to them to be honest. At every level of society we've decided to stick our heads in the sand and pretend like this very large tsunami isn't racing toward the coast, so as someone producing this technology you can be honest (and mostly ignored by people in denial), or be cagey and mistrusted (like Sam Altman).
Because it isn’t honest, it is investor hype that these frontier labs need people to believe despite obviously hitting the sublinear part of the improvement curve.
“It’s so dangerous, we’ve reached AGI, we just have to release models that are obviously incapable of abstraction for your safety”
> Sam lost the plot for me. He took too many interviews which led me to not trust him. Last straw came with him standing by Anthropic one day then throwing them under the bus the next. He showed little awareness on why that is problematic.
It should have become clear to all that he was an untrustworthy person when he was fired from OpenAI by its then-board. My understanding is their complaint was he was lying, untrustworthy, and manipulative; and enough stories came out at the time to confirm that.
I've however been on the receiving end of some very odd board behavior and most founders I know have a story or two as well. I don't always take board decisions at face value. Reality is often askew, personality disorders run rampant in places of power, and there can be unknown incentives at play.
Brockman and his wife were the biggest donors to Donald Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc., in 2025 with each of them donating US$12.5 million. Brockman and his wife also donated $50 million to Leading the Future, a super PAC dedicated to AI deregulation that he helped found with Andreessen Horowitz co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
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We've been using full Serverless for the past year with Serverless framework little to no issues. Sure, a single server would be a little bit quicker but that is my only major complaint.
I have not but my co-founder worked at Uber for 5+ years. He said they had engineers basically building whatever anyone wanted. He said they built their own Slack more or less just because they could.
It's sad, because if they would just travel the world (or look at the data) instead of building unnecesary infrastructure, they would realize how broken the Uber experience is in less developed countries.
Data quality issues, like missing tolls, intersection being different on Uber's map than in real life means that Uber is underpricing drivers, which leads to driver cancellations. It was very frustrating for me to start the whole process again mutiple times after waiting 5-10 minutes and try to haggle with the drivers all the time.
I think it's likely that they don't put much value in delivering a quality product in these markets, where the revenue is relative peanuts compared to first world countries. It's enough just to exist there and claim the territory for the brand. And they can always just blame the sub-par experience in these areas on bad infrastructure. Retaining talent by keeping their engineers happy with pet projects is probably much more important to the company.
