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.
It’s more likely that the time of pump-and-dump grifters will be over and I’ll still be coding.
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.
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.
Programmer here, my reaction to this is: 🤣🤣🤣
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.
AI is lame so it should be able to take all of the CEO jobs already. That would save the shareholders millions, billions even
I’m not going to thank Sam Altman when his time is over.
Petition to merc all billionaires
Thanks for all the templates, we will open source software and you time for collecting funds is over.
That haircut screams untrustworthiness.
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It must be exhausting having to constantly lie all the time.
It’s only exhausting if you have to remember the lies. The media will never challenged him on them, though.
Honestly I think he believes his own bullshit
It isn’t when you are a sociopath
It’s not when nobody asks you to present facts to support your claims.
Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil will replace the doctors.
“Your shits all fucked up…” Is where we’re headed
“Your shit’s fucked up.”
I said “Doctor, how?”
He said “The shit that used to work? It don’t work now.”
There are plenty of tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She’s a
pilotpresident now.Office Space, Silicon Valley, and Idiocracy are ALL written by Mike Judge.
I can’t express how mind-blowing that is. How can one guy hit the bull’s-eye that hard, that many times?
Because corporate America never lets him down
That’s because Mike used to work in corporate tech before he switched to filmmaking, that’s why his movies hit these real and relatable frustrations perfectly
They should call it what it is, Offshoring and I remember what happened the last time they did that the quality was so bad most companies eventually and quietly brought the jobs back. AI will be the same thing once they can’t help but admit Scam Altman took them for a ride at everyone’s expense.
Scam Altman
I like that :-)
yup in the early to mid 10’s every company, startup, etc offshored to India and the drivel that came back was about on par with today’s AI/LLMs. just complete garbage that either needed heavy refactoring or just start over from scratch with competent devs. So seeing all this with AI today I can only think “I’ve seen this episode before”
And that’s with real people.
I would bet far more money on real devs in another country being able to replace devs than “AI”.
Exactly.
The outsourcing supply countries have had over a decade now of working on and around large commercial software platforms.
They have knowledge of their customers needs and the capabilities of the platforms.
Yet how many of them are western owned, and how many are eastern owned?
If 1.4 billion Indians can’t make a corporate-ready viable rip off of SAP in 10 years, AI isn’t going to either.
Yes. Every one in awhile someone marvels at a particularly good AI answer.
Even back in the days when the scam was the first chess robot, those moments were a sign that the “secret backdoor to let a real human take control” was in effect.
But nobody reads history, so they’re just amazed.
That output is from this guy named Sandeep. His work situation is stupid now. But yes, he’s a great programmer. (Edit: Evidence that the scam is alive, today.)
And no, sharing company secrets with him wasn’t wise.
But if I had to choose between some company’s well being, and Sandeep’s, I’m rooting for Sandeep, anyway.
Go sell some trade secrets, Sandeep. You’ve earned it.
Edit: Links added for those unfamiliar with the trick.
AI stands for “Actually, Indians”
Also, this aged like milk (not the article itself but what they’re pointing out in this paragraph):
The fake robot shtick has another purpose too: it’s a distraction. In 2021, Amazon and Google jointly signed a $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli state, including the military, with cloud computing and AI systems. While there’s no evidence that Google or Amazon’s technology has been used in killings of civilians, this continuing deal displays a willingness to engage with a military that has killed 30,000 people, and whose use of “AI”-powered targeting allows it to say: “The machine did it.”
Hey Sam, just so you know, if I do get laid off, I am going to charge at LEAST double when some of these assholes need to hire me back to fix the AI generated disaster they’re struggling to keep running while bleeding money. So thank you in advance, I guess.
Double??? Fuck that. Charge 10x as much. These rich assholes pay pennies while hoarding billions. Don’t feel bad for them when you need to clean up THEIR mess. I usually want everyone to feel empathy, but in this case, I’ll make an exception. Have no empathy for billionaires. Their GOAL is to make you suffer. Milk their bank account dry.
Unfortunately, the way they function is not to ever go down in value unless it results in hoarding even more cash. At this point, we know the problem is functionally parasitoidal and entirely unacceptable. Also unfortunately for us, it’s both the actors and the systems of ideas and values.
Don’t milk their accounts by charging them more, we must overcome their rhetoric through intelligence and wisdom, and do so whilst bearing the brunt of the very effects of being possessed by the creatures and values, and then redistribute their money back to the correct places in society that it would have been, had this disease not taken root in the first place, using said developed empathy, wisdom, intelligence, and logistics to expell them.
The reason DEI and trans people stuff is such a threat is because those maturations of society touched on the very nerves of them to begin with. Equality, compassion, justice, logic, and tearing down the hypnotizing fences that they’ve been herding and corralling us into serving their flawed and violent worldviews.
We are the slaves building the pyramids, we could be free and healthy, but instead we become satisfyingly vengeful over fantasies over charging a billionaire an extra zero to serve him. This is not the way.
Do not become the oppressor. Do not build the Torment Nexus for any price. These are the dark ways that lead to imprinting values and shame and goals onto society and result in positions like the CEO of a publicly traded company serving shareholders becoming a billionaire. Do not build the Torment Nexus. Do not build the Torment Nexus.
Holy shit. Stop building the Torment Nexus.
There are other ways to make your life better and making actual cool shit. Like infrastructure and entertainment and medicine and tasty heathy food and things that actually make people’s lives better.
I write this as a response to your comment, but we’re both well aware that I’m writing this to anybody who will read it. I really hope that the understanding of what we should focus on isn’t personal enrichment to save one’s own ass. That’s okay, you still have to put your own mask on, but the much higher priority is to stop these madmen from destroying society from their high seats and dark towers out of sight. The system’s chokehold on ourselves to continue to only serve the masters to survive is strong, but we must not lose sight or the hope of the true goals of ridding ourselves of these parasites and the ideas they personify.
Cheers, gesundheit, godzilla.
I liked all of that.
Holy shit. Stop building the Torment Nexus.
Yes. The best scene in one of the cube movies is when one of the characters admits he thoughtlessly helped build the thing.
Lol. The system is set up so that (few) workers will have the leverage to charge double…
Whoops… medical issue… please, sam altman, hire me back at the same salary as before! Or half, i dont care!
That’s true, but they can still charge double by taking longer to fix the problem.
There’s going to be a lot of “# decrement this wait counter every time the boss demands a performance improvement” code in the near future.
Open class warfare isn’t a sustainable way to build infrastructure.
We’re on track to reach a point where nothing produced by the FANG companies ever works right.
Then we’ll see how long the public tolerates it for the comfort of the familiar.
