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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- unphazed@lemmy.worldEnglish12 hours
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.
- cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
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.
- Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish8 hours
While I don’t like the idea of having to clean up all the slop his crap is generating I like the future job security.
- MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
I think he’s just trying to further normalize the outsourcing/underpaying/devaluing of programmers.
- SparroHawc@lemmy.zipEnglish13 hours
Except that we’re going to start asking for more pay to clean up after AI slop.
- yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 hours
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
- Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
AI is lame so it should be able to take all of the CEO jobs already. That would save the shareholders millions, billions even
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
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.
- matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 hours
Altman knows. He still has devs in his company, and he didn’t lay them all off. OpenAI is set to go bankrupt in around 1 year. He needs to keep the hype to get as much more money in, and himself generous bonuses, before it goes down.
17 hoursImagine thinking you know more about snake oil than the salesman
- AlexLost@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
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.
- b0ber@lemmy.worldEnglish18 hours
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.ukEnglish18 hours
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.mlEnglish17 hours
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.
- b0ber@lemmy.worldEnglish17 hours
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
- fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish12 hours
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
- Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
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.”
You’ll be sued and fined, not blacklisted lol. Though, the shit on your background check might blacklist you effectively
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.
- ksh@aussie.zoneEnglish15 hours
Thanks for all the templates, we will open source software and you time for collecting funds is over.
- arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish21 hours
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.
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish17 hours
Are you suggesting OpenAI and others like it might actually be…
…overvalued?! 🫢
