AI Made Sam Altman Feel ‘Useless and Sad’—X Users Tried to Make Him Feel Worse

In a minute of raw tech-bro vulnerability, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman required to X last night to admit that constructing an app with Codex left him feeling “a little worthless and it was unfortunate.”

OpenAI’s Codex is an AI coding representative developed to assist designers with software application engineering jobs like composing brand-new functions, repairing bugs, responding to concerns about a codebase, running tests, and proposing pull demands– all in a sandboxed environment that comprehends and communicates with genuine code.

However the tool, Altman stated, spit out function concepts much better than his own, triggering a sentimental sigh for human importance in the middle of his buzz for the singularity. “I make sure we will determine better and more intriguing methods to invest our time,” he tweeted, “however I am feeling classic for today.”

Oh, Sam– welcome to the club of mortals looking down the AI void!

Or possibly not: While the CEO of among the most important business on the planet contemplated his obsolescence, X users treated his post like dry kindling, then provided the accelerant– and kept showing up the heat up until absolutely nothing identifiable was left.

” Feel much better,” sniped one. “You will have a 100 billion-dollar parachute exit. On the other hand, 50-60% of clerical [jobs] got rid of due to AI will trigger employees to feel a little more worthless and unfortunate without a parachute.”

” I think you can weep into a huge stack of cash on the other hand I’ll go talk with a chatbot for the rest of my profession,” an OpenSea engineer composed. “[Thank you,] I think.”

” Sort of like how I have actually felt viewing my profession vanish since a league of no-talent AI brothers can now trigger hollow copies of my work that are ‘simply satisfactory enough’ to flood the web with slop up until it chokes, all since you trained your designs without anybody’s approval,” responded food author Chrisy Toombs.

Which was within the very first hour of Altman’s post. Almost 3 million views and over 2,100 replies later on, individuals were still venting at Altman.

A lot of the posts showed user reaction over OpenAI’s revealed deprecation of GPT-4o, which is slated to happen on February 13, with numerous replies taking Altman to job over design stability.

Though the business is likewise retiring GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini, in addition to tradition GPT-5 versions. GPT-4o is a specific favorite amongst users due to its warm, conversational design and multimodal abilities. OpenAI even restored it after preliminary efforts to deprecate it following the release of GPT-5, after user reaction.

The business stated the choice shows use patterns: most users now choose more recent variations like GPT-5.2, which include personalized character and imaginative controls influenced in part by GPT-4o’s strengths.

Some individuals praised Altman for his sincerity and evident vulnerability. Aditya Agarwal, previous CTO at Dropbox and an early Facebook engineer, stated he was likewise “filled with marvel and likewise an extensive unhappiness.”

” I invested a great deal of time over the weekend composing code with Claude. And it was really clear that we will never ever compose code by hand once again. It does not make any sense to do so,” he stated. “Something I was excellent at is now complimentary and plentiful. I more than happy … however confused … both the kind and function of my early profession are now produced by AI. I more than happy, however likewise unfortunate and baffled.”

Sign up with the club, friend.