Developer creates tongue-in-cheek tool to report unused PC memory to OpenAI's chief executive

Developer Iain Kay has released an open-source bash script called ram-altman on GitHub that monitors system memory usage and drafts daily email reports on underutilized capacity addressed to OpenAI boss Sam Altman. The project was prompted by Altman's recent remarks on a podcast describing it as "quite terrible" for users to keep a share of the world's limited DRAM sitting in personal computers instead of data centers. Altman has since argued that those remarks were taken out of context, and he temporarily adopted the humorous display name "Ram Altman" on X. [1][2]

The utility queries Linux's MemAvailable kernel metrics every five minutes and compiles the findings into CSV logs to create a daily summary. The script cycles through eight subject lines, 10 boilerplate messages, and six signoffs, though it does not supply Altman's private address and includes a dry-run flag so users avoid sending messages. No warnings are triggered if a machine uses 90% or more of its memory. The tool runs natively on Linux, can operate on Windows via WSL or a PowerShell port, and does not support macOS. [1][2]