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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[–] 313 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

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    [–] 250 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 172 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 137 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 82 points 5 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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    [–] 69 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 65 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (15 children)

    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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    [–] 59 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sam Altman hallucinates more than his AI

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    [–] 55 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    /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).

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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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    [–] 54 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 54 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Hahahaha.. go fuck yourself, you miserable thief

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    [–] 52 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 45 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 35 points 5 months 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!

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 32 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 32 points 5 months ago

    Ragebait marketing.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 26 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    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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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months 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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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 24 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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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    [–] 24 points 5 months 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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