Sam Altman thanks early coders, says 'Already feels difficult to remember their effort'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has expressed "gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character". "It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point," he added. Many X users criticised the post, with one saying, "You're welcome. Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away."