[romafirst3]

So why even claim he did 80 hours a week coding, while also being the chairman of the board?

Can we get a pllleeeeeeaaaase????

He’s clearly a terrible programmer and/or a terrible chairman and to be honest this news says he’s at least 1 of 2 on the above.

[GamerAlias]

Realistically the odds of gdb being a terrible programmer are very very slim. He has been in the field for at least a decade, published papers, given talks, was the CTO of stripe ( a company generally respected for having sick technical infrastructure). If he works an inordinate amount, then it's probably cause he loves it. I would guess he is much more likely to be world class than terrible

[sfn42]

Dumb people don't like other peoples success. It reminds them that they're dumb nobodies.

[CoastalCoder]

Or perhaps he's just a really exceptional person.

I don't see any comments here claiming that it's something that most people could do well.

[ajdegol]

Occasionally you meet people who shock you with how talented they are. I watched a couple of his presentations and he immediately reminded me of some of those people I’ve met before.

[romafirst3]

I guess I just don’t like BS in all its forms.

I don’t like nonsense PR stories or myths about people’s extraordinary prowess.

I just respond badly to BS and these statement have obvious BS if you stop for even a second to think about them.

On some level too, it offends me when I see right minded intelligent people in my community lapping it up.

So a couple of things.

Say I were to tell you that he was the President of openAI but he also did 80 hours of janitorial work per week.

Would you say that was a good use of his time?

Would you say that maybe he should be spending his time on being president of the company and not mopping up? You would be right.

Now substitute programming for janitorial work.

Now be a little more critical about things you see online.

[aerhardt]

You really think they'd let him anywhere near any of those two roles if he was pumping out tire fire code into production and constantly spewing erratic BS at strategy meetings the last eight years? Please.