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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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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

Sam Altman hallucinates more than his AI

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 17 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TheTempest@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

One aspect of the Dark Triad is vast overestimation of ones own capabilities. People in power aren't highly intelligent, they're just sociopaths

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 4 points 55 minutes ago

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.

[–] funkhouser@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hahahaha.. go fuck yourself, you miserable thief

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This dude is an empty husk of a human being. Sim Notman

[–] quafeinum@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago

He and Mr. Beast are the perfect couple

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 hours ago

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!

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

All these AI ceos seem to be getting pretty desperate these days, do they know something we don't

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe they know we're cooking ourselves off the planet and they want to speed things up.

[–] deadymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] aliser@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

lets hope if robots take over they dispose of those useless ceos and billionaires

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago

Lol the "AI" that can write a functioning optimized software especially with niche stuff, i still have to see

[–] jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (7 children)

Every programmer working on a problem right now knows that's complete bullshit.

That said, I would love for robots to take over all of our jobs. Just make sure they're working for all of us and not just the people at the top.

[–] deadymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That said, I would love for robots to take over all of our jobs. Just make sure they’re working for all of us and not just the people at the top.

It seems to me that you live in some kind of rainbow world, this will never happen. If robots replace humans, it means that humans, as useless consumers of resources, will be destroyed.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] deadymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

Is it okay that robots dispose of billionaires along with everyone else? Okay, I don't care anymore.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

lol There aren't even discussions happening about rules of robotics or anything along those lines. It's just a race into the unknown with no real sense of direction.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 1 points 3 hours ago

Gui. Llo. Ti. Ne.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 47 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

I agree, the "Says Their Time Is Over" part is clickbaity, but the sentiment is the same. He's thanking "manual programmers" for taking us to this point, clearly implying that from now on they will be no longer required

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I can understand how that can be read into what he said.

I was simply pointing out that the headline is lying about what he said.

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[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you swap "says" with "hints", it works though.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

He didn't say them at the same time. He is absolutely all about firing them. It's his favorite pastime.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 13 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

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...

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