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.
Sam Altman hallucinates more than his AI
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.
One aspect of the Dark Triad is vast overestimation of ones own capabilities. People in power aren’t highly intelligent, they’re just sociopaths
People with actual reasoning and intellect will see these numskulls for what they are. Unfortunately the average person has very little reasoning or intellect. The amount of my peers who haven’t opened a book since school ended is too damned high.
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.
I too love vibe coded security flawed software. Thank you Sam Very cool. AI is for some basic error checking and bootstrapping to get you started it is not touching a programmer at all.
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!
All these AI ceos seem to be getting pretty desperate these days, do they know something we don’t
Maybe they know we’re cooking ourselves off the planet and they want to speed things up.
I think they decided that the collapse was inevitable and decided to party while there was time, until they had to run to the bunkers.
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.
I’ll take all the AI they throw at me once the governments start taxing the rich appropriately, and these taxes cover for at least the basic needs of everyone. I’m not holding my breath, they always want everything.
I wish more people brought this up instead of just flinging shit at users/companies using AI.
They’re fighting an unwinable battle, AI is here to stay and it will keep improving, we have to adapt and ensure people are able to have their basic needs met.
But that’s scary socialism or w/e.
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.
If you swap “says” with “hints”, it works though.
If you swap “says” with “doesn’t say” it also works.
He didn’t say them at the same time. He is absolutely all about firing them. It’s his favorite pastime.
lets hope if robots take over they dispose of those useless ceos and billionaires
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.
Right. There are consequences when engineers make mistakes.
The arrogance is astounding
And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use…
These companies have more money in their hands than they can carry, is it too crazy to think they may be somehow buying on public perception? I’m not trying to make a point on this, I don’t have the time, just saying, this kind of thing happens all the time; investing on public opinion is quite cheap for them.
I think most engineers don’t really like it because it’s making things harder and way less fun. The people who usually seem all about it are engineering managers and c suite idiots. They are all pushing it so hard. The message is clear, use the ai or be fired. It’s been sold to them and they bought it with everything they have. It’s not going to happen the way they think though.
AI tools are nice when I use them the way I want to. I like to do the stuff I am good at and have it help me with what I’m not so good at. At work they want us to just use it for everything though until it can just replace us. That’s bullshit and it ruined any benefits we would have gained
most engineers don’t really like it because it’s making things harder and way less fun
This is how I felt about managing teams of junior developers and/or offshore teams. Just too much annoying work and the result was invariably shitty. The only times in my 25-year programming career that I enjoyed myself and produced work that I was proud of was when I did everything myself.
Executives, your time is over.
“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.
For all the focus on Scam Altman, we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks.
we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks
You mean every company? I never worked for a company that did or would have done anything different.
And do what? This is only happening now because we’re in a fascist economic system. Companies are overwhelmingly monopolies, and when they fail they get bailed out.
Not buy their products. Drag them on social media. Give interest to news stories about the product’s users, not the figurehead of one of the vendors, so the news media focuses on them rather than the distraction. Reach out to your politicians and your friends to discuss how product failures are the result of the company embracing AI and don’t forget to highlight the greed that brought us to this fascist economic system. Use, donate to, or even offer your skills to non-LLM FOSS alternatives. Spend your dollars on companies with scruples. Build your own home lab, give up on all technology, get really into self-sufficiency, and go live in the woods to escape the whole system.
I don’t know… something other than giving in. Literally anything other than that.
