Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. He previously served as president of startup accelerator Y Combinator.
About Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research and deployment company whose products include ChatGPT and DALL·E. He helped establish OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory.
Before focusing on OpenAI, Altman served as president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. His public work includes discussions of AI deployment, governance, safety, and the economic effects of increasingly capable AI systems.
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- Agentic fatigue meets vibe coding: the AI developer productivity paradox (2026) →
Social feeds show ambitious builders 'fully cooked' by mid-afternoon despite AI leverage. Token spend surges 13×, context switching exhausts cognition, and vibe-coded apps collapse under their own weight. Here is the paradox, the economics, and the escape hatch.
- Why do AI models hallucinate? A practical guide (with Anthropic’s explainer and explainx.ai tips) →
Hallucinations are confident-sounding falsehoods: fake papers, wrong stats, bad biographical detail. This post follows Anthropic’s plain-language explainer, adds patterns we see when teaching skills and agents, and points to a short video for the full walkthrough.
- When Claude Code wobbles on Pro: what a 2026 pricing test says about token limits and the cost of building with AI →
A one-day pricing-page shift put Claude Code next to $100 Max plans, drew a sharp transparency backlash, and was rolled back by evening. Anthropic said it was a 2% new-signup experiment with no change for existing customers; Pro keeps Claude Code again. The same week, competitors highlighted their own clarity—another reminder to treat frontier tools as a budget line, not a fixed utility.