😎 Sam Altman says we are entering the “revenge of the ideas guy” era.

Sam says he recently met someone who used GPT-5.6 to build software now sold to 50 people for $500/month. He says building it previously would have cost millions in software engineers.

He says GPT-6 Astra has reset the economics of starting a company. With Astra, “anyone who wants to have a company now has genius-level employees in every area of expertise.” He says even a full game for only a few thousand users can now make economic sense.

His message for engineers is pretty clear too: technical talent is still important, but simply knowing how to code is becoming less valuable as a differentiator. Altman says he now wants to fund people who deeply understand users even if they cannot code at all.

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