A year ago Sam Altman was going around trying to convince people we all needed to drop 7 trillion dollars to build hundreds of fabs and nuclear power plants to fuel his AI ambitions. Only a week ago he was triumphantly announcing 500 billion dollar deals with our new President.

The (regrettably temporary) ousting of Sam Altman looks like the right call, in hindsight. Of course some amount of showmanship is expected, but the extreme nature of this self-serving BS is just laughable.

6 months from now we may be looking at Sam Altman the way we look at Adam Neumann.