# Dev creates a tool to automatically inform Sam Altman of all the RAM sitting unused in your PC

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dev-creates-a-tool-to-automatically-inform-sam-altman-of-all-the-ram-sitting-unused-in-your-pc/
- Published: 2026-11-09T21:53:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T22:27:28+00:00
- Original publisher: GamesRadar+
- Original article: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/dev-creates-a-tool-to-automatically-inform-sam-altman-of-all-the-ram-sitting-unused-in-your-pc-as-openai-co-founder-complains/
- Topics: Gaming

## Key points

- A developer made a script to report unused RAM to Sam Altman.
- It sends one email daily when more than 10% of memory is free.
- The tool satirises Altman’s comments about RAM allocation.

## Summary

Developer Iain Kay has created Ram-Altman, a script that emails Sam Altman when a computer has more than 10% of its memory unused. The tool mocks Altman’s comments about the global allocation of memory, which drew criticism for suggesting that RAM sitting idle in personal computers could be better used in AI data centres.

Altman later said his remarks had been taken out of context and that he wanted people to have plenty of memory in their computers. Kay’s script sends one email a day, reporting how much RAM is available; a sample message describes 8.6 GiB, or 56.2% of the computer’s installed memory, as unused. The script is shared on GitHub.

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