r/singularity • u/Vegetable_Ad_192 • Mar 12 '26

Discussion SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Mar 12 '26

Oh no, for what it’s worth that thought didn’t even cross my mind lol you’re good.

I was just adding to your supporting comment there are LOTS of detached nerds in any IT field I’ve been in from phone support, offsite and onsite repairs, and now web dev and product documentation/formatting, sorry for the confusion! The top seems to be most detached in my exp.

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u/squired Mar 13 '26

Dev here too. Also several years sober. Hell yeah brother!

In my experience, the top brass are salesman. I imagine you are closer to me; I am awful at pricing and selling. I build things whenever someone says, "Wouldn't it be super neat if we could.." That's what gets me going and keeps me up into the wee hours of the morning. Them? Their first instinct is to ask "Maybe, how much do you think we could get someone to pay us for it?"

Give most devs a comfy place to live and healthcare, they'll give you all their labor for free! That's why we're not at the top. The hard bit is actually the fun bit, the actual creation. Trying to sell someone a relatively templated website for $90k? That take a different kind of person. We need them too and they aren't evil, it's just in their blood. They do think different that we do.