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Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over (futurism.com)
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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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[–] 26 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

cool but that's not what he said

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.

this article is garbage.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I don’t know what is Altman’s experience, but almost nobody writes software character by character for many years. Context code completion is present for about 30 years already (take a look at Delphi or VS6 from 90ties). Refactoring tooling is about 20 years old too (see Eclipse or other Java IDEs). So if he says character by character, it is just silly. When you write prompt you also write is char-by-char right? :).

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