I am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute: I...

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Sam Altman@sama
58 views Feb 03, 2026 ~1 min read
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I am very excited about AI, but to go off-script for a minute:

I built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun. Then I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of.

I felt a little useless and it was sad.
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I am sure we will figure out much better and more interesting ways to spend our time, and amazing new ways to be useful to each other, but I am feeling nostalgic for the present.
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