I thought this was going to be some hit-piece tweet then I saw it was a tweet from Sam Altman himself. That video... Wow. I got in 2min before I had to stop. I thought you might be over-exaggerated but full of /themselves/ doesn't even begin to describe it.

Ship something, then you can create a video like that, not before.

this is designed to appeal directly to a certain kind of self-mythologizing Bay Area techie, the kind that was common in the early 2010s. It’s meant to signal continuity, “we’re just like you, we loved Steve Jobs”

apparently it worked on some people: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/21/sam-and-jony-io

I tried but it was too much, first I thought it was a spoof, then perhaps AI generated and then couldn't watch no more!

I agree the first minute or two of this was very cringe. I stuck with it though and it reminded me very much of the kind of talk that was common in the late '00s tech scene. Sort of nice to see that kind of optimism again.