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’d feel more threatened if they had a model with persistent memory and realtime adaptability. But even then its not clear if it’ll replace engineers. We’re still far from that. Until then other tech might emerge like lab grown brains, quantum chips and what not
Right! GraphRAG, VectorDBs, larger context windows, MCP servers, “tools”, “skills”, and now “using the cli as a user” still havent really solved some of the inherent flaws of even the latest frontier models. SLMs and fining tuning gives me hope on addressing the learning part of machine learning. At least a little more
Let’s talk in 3 years - my round!