Transcript: 'How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time'

The transcript of The Every Podcast with Sam Altman is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:00:30
2. Why AI hasn’t replaced developers: 00:00:55
3. OpenAI’s platform bet on the rise of small-team companies: 00:04:45
4. Why the AI era is more “Renaissance” than “Industrial Revolution”: 00:05:45
5. How Sam’s Dot, OpenAI’s always-on AI agent, gave him back his mornings: 00:07:40
6. Sam’s process for building new features with his Dot: 00:12:00
7. Inside OpenAI’s “live documents” that agents and humans can build together: 00:16:00
8. What bring-your-own-subscription changes for app developers: 00:20:55
9. Why “OpenAI just killed X startup” never comes true: 00:24:00
10. Sam’s life on Ultrafast and the push to make speed as cheap as intelligence: 00:27:55

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Transcript

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Dan Shipper

You do all your prompting on Ultrafast?

Sam Altman