Sam Altman hallucinates more than his AI
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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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.
Sam is still early, and obnoxious, but I've been monitoring AI progress since the 1980s. Roughly one year ago, AI coding agents sort of turned the corner from not really any more useful than a Google search (which is, itself very useful), into getting things right more than they hallucinate. That was an important watershed, because from that point they could make forward progress, fixing more mistakes than they made.
In the 12 months since, there has been steady and rapid forward progress. If you haven't asked an AI to code something for you in the last 3 months, you're out of touch with where it's at today.
Even free Gemini rips out really good bash scripts faster than you can look up the first weird thing you want it to do.
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.
Hahahaha.. go fuck yourself, you miserable thief
This dude is an empty husk of a human being. Sim Notman
He and Mr. Beast are the perfect couple
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.
lets hope if robots take over they dispose of those useless ceos and billionaires
Of all the jobs that require a lack of human empathy and cold calculation, CEO is the first in line for AI replacement.
Lol the "AI" that can write a functioning optimized software especially with niche stuff, i still have to see
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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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.
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
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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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.
Just make sure they’re working for all of us and not just the people at the top.
Yeah, I put a request for just that in the corporate comment box, hope to hear back with those assurances real soon now.
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.
Yep. That's the plan.
Is it okay that robots dispose of billionaires along with everyone else? Okay, I don't care anymore.
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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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.
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