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.
I’m not going to thank Sam Altman when his time is over.
Petition to merc all billionaires
And when AI inevitably collapses, programmers should join unions and negotiate for a much higher wage, as they will be in even more need to fix all the shit that gets broken. Everyone knows it’s easier to replace or rebuild, but companies can’t do that, they’ll need their code, their databases, accounts, everything - fixed. That will cost them more than they ever thought they’d save. AI will one day do the things they want, but we’re looking at decades until it can reach that point.
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.
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
That haircut screams untrustworthiness.
AI is lame so it should be able to take all of the CEO jobs already. That would save the shareholders millions, billions even
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.
Programmer here, my reaction to this is: 🤣🤣🤣
Same attitude as “Canada, who needs them”. You’ll come crawling back shortly. It’s up to programmers to tell these fuckers where to go when that time comes. Know your worth.
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.
This will probably put me in a blacklist in job hunting but if I work as IT in a union-busting, lay-off company and some recently fucked-over employee comes up to me I am giving them all the critical passwords “by accident.”
I have a feeling that OpenAI won’t be long for the chop. They’re burning through capital and unlike Google or Facebook they don’t have any other revenue stream than AI. Nor did they focus and specialise on something, such as coding so even by that metric Anthropic is shitting all over them.
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.
Great! I finally have an excuse to take that hiatus I’ve been meaning to do for the past several years. You’ve got my number when everything breaks! Oh, and when it does my rate is gonna be double what it is now.
