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Ram-Altman: The CEO's Worst Nightmare

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Ram-Altman: The CEO's Worst Nightmare

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Someone built a bash script that emails Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) daily reports about unused RAM capacity. Because apparently, the best use of monitoring tools is passive-aggressive notifications to C-suite executives about wasted resources.

The script literally watches your RAM and tattles to the CEO when you're not utilizing every last byte. Nothing says "efficient resource management" quite like automating corporate guilt trips. The project has 667 stars, which means 667 people thought "yes, this is exactly the kind of chaos the world needs."

Best part? It's tagged "quite terrible" and sends emails "1 per day." Imagine Sam Altman's inbox getting daily updates about someone's 5% RAM utilization while he's trying to build AGI. Peak developer humor right here.

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