AI & I · Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Sam Altman shared insights at Dev Day on how AI is not only increasing developer productivity but also revealing latent demand for goods and services, suggesting a future with more work, not less. He emphasized that AI's impact will be human-centered, focusing on augmenting human capabilities rather than wholesale replacement.
“I think people just want so much more stuff. People's expectations are so high. And I think that's a wonderful thing. I think this is why we'll all have this incredible future in front of us to explore.”
“But I think there's so much other stuff people want in the world, there's gonna be no shortage of new things to go do. I think that's been one of the lessons of recent time.”
“Why do you think it's so human-centered even though we talk a lot about automation? I mean, one observation is we just, we don't care that much about what the machines do. And in some sense we never have. And we're just like, we're obsessed with other people.”