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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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[-] b0ber@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Their models can't replace anyone, its just a fancy autocomplete. Before, we took snippets from GitHub and StackOverflow now it's just a chat. Cool feature, but they overpromised big time.

[-] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

It’s really not and if you believe it is you need to use it more. The threat is real - don’t underestimate it.

[-] JoeMontayna@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Right. It doesn't need parity with developers, it just needs to be cheap enough to justify the replacement. Also, there are an army of developers right now trying to make it happen, building guardrails and frameworks and even new languages to enable it. If you are an "ok" developer and you don't have a plan B, you're going to be hurting an a few years.

[-] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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