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Altman’s remarks in his tweet drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.

“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”

Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”

“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.

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[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

All these AI ceos seem to be getting pretty desperate these days, do they know something we don't

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, they know that all they have is advanced predictive text and that if people see through the mysticism they're trying to project (about this predictive text on steroids being the emergence of a technogod), they're fucked.

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[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

If you scoured the world for the most punchable face, you’d surely come up with Sam Altman

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe it's time to cut ties.

Let the CEO do his business with AI only. Let the developers do their own business without a CEO and without AI.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

So, we're just trafficking in misinformation now?

Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort

True

, Says Their Time Is Over

Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.

The tweet:

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

Thank you for getting us to this point.

[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree, the "Says Their Time Is Over" part is clickbaity, but the sentiment is the same. He's thanking "manual programmers" for taking us to this point, clearly implying that from now on they will be no longer required

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I can understand how that can be read into what he said.

I was simply pointing out that the headline is lying about what he said.

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[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Gotta say Sam, spoken like a true sister molester

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And when AI inevitably collapses, programmers should join unions and negotiate for a much higher wage, as they will be in even more need to fix all the shit that gets broken. Everyone knows it's easier to replace or rebuild, but companies can't do that, they'll need their code, their databases, accounts, everything - fixed. That will cost them more than they ever thought they'd save. AI will one day do the things they want, but we're looking at decades until it can reach that point.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

AI is lame so it should be able to take all of the CEO jobs already. That would save the shareholders millions, billions even

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

These idiots want to replace technical workers when AI is more attuned to replacing a CEO at this point. We don't need Sam anymore.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Right. There are consequences when engineers make mistakes.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

the funny thing is that by all accounts replacing programmers with AI leads to hiring programmers back to fix AI mess.

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[-] DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck 'Madoff' Altman.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Bad news is: 840 billion.

The biggest pile of bullshit bucks that the world has ever seen, and this guy's sorry ass is sitting on top.

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

To every developer/programmer/coder/engineer/whatever that gets laid off in favour of AI soon, keep your skills up. Keep learning. The time is coming when they'll need you back to fix it. Remember to price yourself to make up for loss of earnings in the interim and then some

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

+ punitive damages

[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not a programmer myself, but I don’t believe for a second that LLM’s will replace programmers.

Altman’s bullshitting on social media is just marketing. Don’t believe for a second that this guy actually speaks truth or even knows what he’s talking about.

However, I do believe that a lot of executives are gullible enough to fall for this vibe-coding scam and kill their business. I also believe we’re going to see a tsunami of racketeers selling broken products.

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[-] aliser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

lets hope if robots take over they dispose of those useless ceos and billionaires

[-] webkitten@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Petition to merc all billionaires

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sam Altman saying that programmers are not needed anymore is all the confirmation I need to know we'll be very much needed, maybe a lot more than before, probably sooner than expected.

[-] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

While I don't like the idea of having to clean up all the slop his crap is generating I like the future job security.

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