OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed his deep appreciation for the generations of software engineers who manually built today’s digital foundations.
In a post on X, he acknowledged how quickly we are forgetting the effort required to develop complex systems before the rise of AI.
While Altman thanked these developers for bringing the industry to its current state, his comments also highlight a major shift; with AI tools now capable of writing and debugging code in seconds.
Looking back at the effort developers have put in over the years, he wrote, “I…

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