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.
the funny thing is that by all accounts replacing programmers with AI leads to hiring programmers back to fix AI mess.
But do they want to come back ?
For double the salary probably, the problem is there’s always a line of people looking for work.
That’s why unions are important and for people to not be scabs
“more will come”. never underestimate hungry star eyed folks. Look at Grammarly - they’ve been throwing people on the streets for the last three years showing zero loyalty to longterm employees and then replacing them with cheaper newbies over and over. And that after hoarding literally any NLP talent to make competition non-existent - so for NLP folks in Ukraine it means they have nowhere to go outside of military sector which is its own can of worms. Meanwhile Grammarly just keeps on pivoting to AI coding then hiring folks to clean the mess to pivot again.
No, they prefer their jobs at Costco and McDonalds
Good point, I’ll be up front about only replacing vibe code, not debugging it.