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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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[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 313 points 1 month ago

It must be exhausting having to constantly lie all the time.

[-] skribe@piefed.social 119 points 1 month ago

It's only exhausting if you have to remember the lies. The media will never challenged him on them, though.

[-] philanthropicoctopus 20 points 1 month ago

Honestly I think he believes his own bullshit

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[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 250 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil will replace the doctors.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 month ago

"Your shits all fucked up..." Is where we're headed

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are plenty of tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She's a ~~pilot~~ president now.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 month ago

Office Space, Silicon Valley, and Idiocracy are ALL written by Mike Judge.

I can't express how mind-blowing that is. How can one guy hit the bull's-eye that hard, that many times?

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[-] agentTeiko@piefed.social 172 points 1 month ago

They should call it what it is, Offshoring and I remember what happened the last time they did that the quality was so bad most companies eventually and quietly brought the jobs back. AI will be the same thing once they can't help but admit Scam Altman took them for a ride at everyone's expense.

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 60 points 1 month ago

Scam Altman

I like that :-)

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[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 137 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey Sam, just so you know, if I do get laid off, I am going to charge at LEAST double when some of these assholes need to hire me back to fix the AI generated disaster they're struggling to keep running while bleeding money. So thank you in advance, I guess.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

Double??? Fuck that. Charge 10x as much. These rich assholes pay pennies while hoarding billions. Don't feel bad for them when you need to clean up THEIR mess. I usually want everyone to feel empathy, but in this case, I'll make an exception. Have no empathy for billionaires. Their GOAL is to make you suffer. Milk their bank account dry.

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[-] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 month ago
[-] sobchak@programming.dev 124 points 1 month ago

He's still using a Studio Ghibli pfp? I thought they asked OpenAI to stop using their style. These people are actively hostile to the idea of consent.

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Rapist mentality all the way. How fitting they're all either owners of or owned by to the rapist in the White House.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 89 points 1 month ago

He's at the Elon stage of feeling he needs to be more explicit about what an asshole he is. These guys seem to need recognition.

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[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 29 points 1 month ago

I wonder if he wrote that post character-by-character.

But actually typing out the code is the least difficult part of programming, once you've been doing it for five or ten years. You have to understand the code that is already there. You have to decide the behavior, either way. You have to review the code, either way. Design the local and overall architecture. Design interfaces and APIs.

The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer. His statement betrays that he doesn't even understand what's difficult. People with his level of understanding of a topic shouldn't broadcast their ignorance publicly.

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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 82 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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[-] jobbies@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 month ago

Let's see how well this one ages, shall we?

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[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago

How come so many billionaires are so incredibly immeasurably stupid? Seriously, this dude sounds like some random moron on the street. Musk does too. I've seen interviews with Musk where he rambles his answers aimlessly. I mean fuck you'd at least expect them to be a bit above average. But no. They're angry online pseudointellectual level.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't understand how people see this kind of thing and think, "this guy is dumb."

For a decade the world has been seeing constant evidence that when you lie brazenly and repeatedly enough you become untouchable. All one needs to is completely discard the idea of shame. This guy isn't an idiot- he just knows (probably rightly) that he has everything to gain and nothing to lose by pretending to be.

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[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

Sam Altman hallucinates more than his AI

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[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago
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[-] sobchak@programming.dev 55 points 1 month ago

/rant

These are weird times. I feel like any developer who's tried letting AI write code should recognize that it hurts productivity when you have chase down bugs in badly written code nobody on your team understands. For anything important, that will need to be maintained, less time would be spent designing, writing, and maintaining the code yourself. There are even studies showing AI hurts productivity. Yet, many developers seem to have bought the hype, and managers and investors doubly so.

AFAIK, few of these startups that tout heavy AI usage ever ship anything. The large companies that are forcing AI usage are progressively degrading their products.

Seems like the owner class is just going to keep on deluding themselves, companies are going to keep laying off, everybody is going to keep shipping shit that doesn't work, if they ship anything at all, and investors are going to keep dumping money into businesses producing no value. The entire system has never felt so fake. At least during the dot-com bubble corporations weren't doing mass layoffs to excite investors.

I feel like the owner class has got so powerful now, society has regressed to the point where we're back to being ruled by dumb, delusional, psychopathic royalty imposing their will onto the masses. (Yeah, it's kind of been that way for a long time, but it seems to be quickly getting worse).

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 month ago

As a developer on a team of 20ish that use AI heavily, daily, I'd argue there are proper ways of using it as a tool that substantially increases productivity and quality while also reducing bugs and improving maintainability.

But I would also say that 75%+ of people I encounter aren't leveraging it properly or even close to properly. Also too many people use ChatGPT and Copilot which are just bottom of the barrel garbage and then wonder why the output is also garbage.

But I agree that too many people and companies lean into AI too heavily and incorrectly and there will be a reckoning. I'm all for it.

[-] baines@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago

everyone using ai says some variation of this

acting like they do proper code review on this ai gen code but we’ve had so many examples of how people well before ai carried massive tech debt and cut corners so I have zero faith

much less the numerous examples of slop laden bugs making it to live with major companies in the us

ai just amplifies and obfuscates the problem 

 

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[-] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 month ago

Hahahaha.. go fuck yourself, you miserable thief

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[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 54 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.

[-] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago

If you swap "says" with "hints", it works though.

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[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This feels a lot like a ragebait article.

What did Altman actually tweet that caused the backlash? I can't seem to find it while skimming, only the responses to it.

-edit- Found it

It is a lot less rage inducing than the article makes it out to be.

[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

I mean I can see how that draws ire. His contribution doesn’t really line up with his benefits. This project started as an open source, with a non profit running it. Now it’s one of the biggest private companies in the world and threatening to replace a lot of jobs. So if you look at the context, he’s already forgetting how much hard work he stole to make himself obscenely rich and powerful!

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 45 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.

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[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 41 points 4 weeks 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

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[-] arcine@jlai.lu 36 points 1 month ago

Stop paying attention to this man already.

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[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 35 points 4 weeks 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.

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[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago

my (non technical boss) proudly declared they had "vibe coded a new landing page for our contact us page"

when you hit the submit button it downloaded the .ico of the website to the temp files and nothing else.

Perfect for a malicious code injection!

[-] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 33 points 1 month ago

Until something stops working, and the IA tells you that you are right, then since you don't know how to program you just see gibberish, then you need to call someone that know how to code and they will charge you an arm and a leg, it would be the same as when you take your car to the mechanic

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[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Didn’t he swindle an open source project that was managed by a non profit into a company that only benefits himself? I love how all the rich and powerful are just swindlers. It appears they have no bootstraps.

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[-] utopiah@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago

Ragebait marketing.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 weeks ago

When. Are. We. Building. The. Leisure. Society?

There is nothing reasonable left to do, we don't need, or want, full employment when it just means bullshit jobs.

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[-] kablez@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Imagine if you pirated a bunch of movies, and then went to the cinema and bragged about it. That's what Altman is doing there.

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[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks 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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[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 25 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 22 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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[-] funkhouser@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Any software engineer who uses AI knows this to be horseshit. If anything, it'll lead to more engineering jobs when all of the pleb CEOs who think they're CTOs now begin to realize that there's more to coding than the code, and their software is ass at scale. Hopefully this happens in hilarious and public ways for us all to enjoy.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 month ago

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

People have to understand that this is what's behind all the giddiness and wild investing in AI - they are out of their minds at the prospect firing 90% of their human workforce, more if they possibly can. Nobody wants those disgusting humans hanging around, lazy, slow, eating, farting, gossipping, complaining, losers, no self-respecting Sociopathic Oligarch wants them around.

If they're so enthusiastic to go to work every day, send them to the work camps, where they can be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment Work Slaves. They'll be called 13s. In 10 years, if MAGA is still running the show, 13s will be the primary human workforce, for any jobs that can't be done by AI or robotic. There will be a small contingent of privileged humans who will work supervisory positions, bossing around the 13s.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember when programmers were telling truck drivers to "learn to code bro" when they thought self-driving trucks were going to be a thing?

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 22 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.

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