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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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[–] 82 points 6 months ago (8 children)

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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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    But do they want to come back ?

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    For double the salary probably, the problem is there's always a line of people looking for work.

    That's why unions are important and for people to not be scabs

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I am pro-union, but I won't deny that's utopic for now.

    Unionizing people on your country? Feasible. But what then? Because with this AI race what they actually are doing is "ok, now I have a 'bot' that does a lot of your work, so I'm offering you half of your hourly rate. Oh, you don't accept it? Ok, let's substitute our whole mainland team for a remote one with people from LATAM/India/China for 1/3 of the hourly rate."

    This shit ain't gonna end well in the long run.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    It’s already not looking well. We’ve destroyed the United States, middle class and propped up all the middle classes of the countries you listed. I have no problem with the ladder, but I do have a problem with the former.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    "more will come". never underestimate hungry star eyed folks. Look at Grammarly - they've been throwing people on the streets for the last three years showing zero loyalty to longterm employees and then replacing them with cheaper newbies over and over. And that after hoarding literally any NLP talent to make competition non-existent - so for NLP folks in Ukraine it means they have nowhere to go outside of military sector which is its own can of worms. Meanwhile Grammarly just keeps on pivoting to AI coding then hiring folks to clean the mess to pivot again.

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