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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- cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish3 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.
- MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
I think he’s just trying to further normalize the outsourcing/underpaying/devaluing of programmers.
- ksh@aussie.zoneEnglish1 hour
Thanks for all the templates, we will open source software and you time for collecting funds is over.
- yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 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
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish4 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.worksEnglish4 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.
3 hoursImagine thinking you know more about snake oil than the salesman
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.
- AlexLost@lemmy.worldEnglish4 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.worldEnglish4 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.ukEnglish4 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.mlEnglish3 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.worldEnglish3 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
- Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish6 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
- PolarPirate@lemmy.zipEnglish6 hours
(Not a programer) I’ve tried vibe coding some simple things for myself and gotten “decent” results. I couldn’t imagine trying to make anything ready for commercial release. I’ve had to learn the basics of Python just to unfuck its mistakes…
- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish2 hours
Not a programmer either and I’ve never been able to get a working product out of it. Best it’s done is get me like 60% of the way there and I have to finish the rest and that was rare.
- Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish5 hours
Same here. It’s cool for drafting up a concept and I can imagine that it can help if you’re stuck somehow, but that’s about it.
- ksh@aussie.zoneEnglish1 hour
Many draft ideas that I have come across for a slightly moderate difficulty projects have been mostly unworkable when you actually go to do it.
- matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
It is genuinely useful for people with limited programming experience to write simple scripts that will never be released in the wild.
That market is way too niche to justify the billions needed to achieve that result. Companies should just have professional human coding assistants.
- PhAzE@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
Did he expect programmers to be like “thank you sir, we tip our hat and go home to our lavish houses to retire now, farewell and good luck” … like, having slaves make your mansion then burying them all alive and thinking its a gift is insane.
- reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish6 hours
using llm to program is nuclear bomb level security disaster in making. Eventually they will have ousted anyone competent out and affter that no one will be there to fix the security flaws that llm generated code creates. I just hope the companies that get the worst of the consequences also deserve them.
- metermatic26@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Not just a security disaster, but a disaster for performance, testing, lifecycle management etc.
I don’t think people realize just how amazingly stupid it is to outsource your core business to an LLM, unless your software company was a get rich quick scheme to begin with (which is surprisingly common btw).
- Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
Ooh also people they just ousted will have pretty good foundations for switching to cyber-crime.
- arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish7 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.worldEnglish4 hours
Are you suggesting OpenAI and others like it might actually be…
…overvalued?! 🫢
