OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman

Okay. All right. Uh, thank you all for coming . uh as we as we start to think about the next generation of tools for builders and how we're going to use these incredibly powerful models that are starting to come online um we wanted to just hear from you all about what you'd like uh what what's on your mind answer any questions but I hope we come out of today with a much clearer sense of what to build for you all and how to make these incredibly powerful models useful . Um I figured I would start with a question from Twitter . Uh where do you fall in the Jevans paradox of software engineering ? If AI makes code dramatically faster and cheaper to create , does that reduce demand for software engineers or does cheaper custom software massively increase demand and keep engineers employed for decades ? I think what it means to be an engineer is going to super change . I there will be probably far more people and creating far more value and capturing more value that are getting computers to do what hopefully much better at writing than 4.5 was . Um, we did decide, and I think for good reason, to put most of our effort in 5.2 into making it super good at intelligence, reasoning, coding, engineering, that kind of thing . Um, and we have limited bandwidth here, and sometimes we focus on one thing and neglect another . But I believe that the future is mostly going to be about very good general purpose models . Um, you know, even if you're trying to make a model that's really great at coding , it'd be nice if it writes well, too . Like, if you're trying to have it be able to generate a full application for you, you 'd like good writing in there . When it's interacting with you, you'd like it to have a sort of thoughtful, incisive personality and communicate clearly . Like good writing in the sense of clear thought, not like beautiful pros . Um so my hope is that we just push to get future models really good in all of these dimensions and I think we will do that